bisexual

Etymology
From, via the French. Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in 's 1886  (in German) and 's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or to the same sex) must be partly of another sex and thus "hermaphroditic".

Adjective

 * 1)  Sexually attracted to both same-gendered and different-gendered partners. Similar to pansexual
 * 2)  Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
 * 3)  Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
 * 4)  Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
 * 5)  Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
 * 6)  Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
 * 7)  Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.
 * 8) Androgynous.
 * 9)  Having two distinct sexes, male and female.
 * 10)  Involving two sexes.
 * 11) * 1913, Kammerer's Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution of 1912, in the Congressional Serial Set, page 425:
 * "en"
 * 1) Androgynous.
 * 2)  Having two distinct sexes, male and female.
 * 3)  Involving two sexes.
 * 4) * 1913, Kammerer's Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution of 1912, in the Congressional Serial Set, page 425:
 * "en"
 * 1)  Having two distinct sexes, male and female.
 * 2)  Involving two sexes.
 * 3) * 1913, Kammerer's Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution of 1912, in the Congressional Serial Set, page 425:
 * "en"
 * 1)  Involving two sexes.
 * 2) * 1913, Kammerer's Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution of 1912, in the Congressional Serial Set, page 425:
 * "en"
 * 1)  Involving two sexes.
 * 2) * 1913, Kammerer's Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution of 1912, in the Congressional Serial Set, page 425:
 * "en"
 * "en"

- But it does not agree with our idea of orthodox sexual reproduction, since many generations may pass without the appearance of males. The reproductive products at such times are purely feminine—that is, eggs which develop without having been fertilized by a male cell, the spermatozoan. We may distinguish this form of reproduction from sexual reproduction, in the restricted sense, or bisexual reproduction, as unisexual or parthenogenetic reproduction.



Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:bisexual
 * See also Thesaurus:bisexual

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: երկսեռական
 * Azerbaijani: ikicinsli
 * Bengali: উভকামী
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 雙性戀, 兩性
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: bisexuální
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: biseksuaalne
 * Faroese: tvíkyndur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბისექსუალი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: biseksyèl
 * Hebrew:, ביסקסואלי
 * Hindi: उभयलिंगी, बिसेक्सुअल
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tvíkynhneigður, tvíkynhneigð, tvíkynhneigt
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: bisexual
 * Irish: déghnéasach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: bisexuālis
 * Malay: dwijantina, dwiseks, dwiseksual, biseks, biseksual
 * Maltese: bisesswali
 * Maori: hōkakarua
 * Marathi: उभयलैंगिक
 * Norman: bisexuel
 * Norwegian: bifil
 * Occitan: ,
 * Persian: دوجنس‌گرا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghnèitheach, dà-mhiannach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: би̏сексуа̄лан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: silahis
 * Tajik:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:


 * Belarusian: двухпо́лы
 * Bulgarian: двупо́лов
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 雙性
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: tvíkynjaður
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, zweigeschlechtig,
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic: tvíkynja
 * Ido:
 * Irish: déghnéasach
 * Italian:, ermafrodita
 * Japanese: 両性的,
 * Korean:, 량성
 * Malay: dwijantina, dwiseks, dwiseksual, biseks, biseksual
 * Maltese: bisesswali, mara-raġel
 * Polish:, dwupłciowy
 * Portuguese: bissexuado
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: obojpohlavný
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: duhansariin
 * Ukrainian: двостате́вий, гермафроди́тний

Noun

 * 1) A person who is bisexual.
 * 2)  A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.
 * 3)  An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.
 * 1)  A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.
 * 2)  An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.
 * 1)  An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.

Synonyms

 * see also Thesaurus:bisexual

Translations

 * Armenian: երկսեռական
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 雙性戀者
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ambaŭseksemulo, ambaŭseksemuliĉo , ambaŭseksemulino
 * Estonian: biseksuaal,
 * Faroese: tvíkyndur, tvíkynd
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἡμιλάσταυρος
 * Greenlandic: angutinik arnanillu atoqateqartartoq
 * Hebrew: ביסקסואלי
 * Ido: bisexualo, bisexualulo, bisexualino
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: bisexual
 * Italian:, bisex
 * Japanese: ,
 * Maori: takatāpui kaharua
 * Norman: bisexuel, bisexuelle
 * Persian: دوجنس‌گرا
 * Polish:, , biseks
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, bisexuală
 * Russian: ,
 * Sami:
 * Inari: biseksual
 * Northern: bifiila, biseksuála
 * Skolt: biseksuaal
 * Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghnèitheach
 * Slovak:, bisexuálka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: silahis
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: ชอบทั้งสองเพศ, เสือไบ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,

Adjective

 * 1) bisexual

Noun

 * 1) bisexual

Etymology
. Equivalent to.

Etymology
From.