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								a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness 2.
								the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
 
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			| The following are synonyms for 'gender'. Click on any of them to get both Bibliodata's full list of common definitions and a further set of synonyms. 
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				female
					
				
					
				androgynous
					
				
					
				sexual
					
				
					
				asexual
					
				
					
				nonsexual |  
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		| Variations of 'gender' |  
		| grammatical category
									
		
									
		physiological property
									
		
									
		syntactic category |  
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