unisexual

English

Etymology

From uni- +‎ sexual.

Adjective

unisexual (not comparable)

1. Of an organism, having characteristics of a single sex (as opposed to hermaphrodites).

   Most animals are unisexual.

2. Of a species, having only a single (potentially hermaphroditic) sex (as opposed to bisexual).
   • 1981, Mosaic, page 4:

     The second line of inquiry has to do with the ultimate fate of unisexual species. Are they doomed to more rapid extinction than bisexual species? On the assumption that unisexual populations lack genetic variation, most theoretical studies  […]

3. Unisex; suitable for any sex or gender.
   • 2015, Arhlene A. Flowers, Global Writing for Public Relations: Connecting in English with Stakeholders and Publics Worldwide, Routledge, →ISBN, page 433:

     You may not be familiar with the name or it could be a unisexual name, and some women and men may have first names that are more traditional for the opposite gender.

Translations

having characteristics of a single sex

• Belarusian: аднапо́лы (adnapóly)
• Bulgarian: еднополов (ednopolov)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單性的／单性的 (zh) (dānxìng de)

• Czech: nedokonalý (cs) m
• Finnish: yksineuvoinen (fi)
• French: unisexe (fr)
• German: eingeschlechtlich
• Ido: unsexua
• Irish: aonghnéasach
• Italian: unisessuale
• Japanese: 単性の (ja) (たんせいの, tansei no)
• Macedonian: еднополов (ednopolov)
• Polish: jednopłciowy
• Portuguese: unissexuado (pt), unissexual (pt)
• Russian: однопо́лый (ru) (odnopólyj)
• Spanish: unisexual (biol.)
• Tagalog: sansariin
• Ukrainian: одностате́вий (odnostatévyj)

Noun

unisexual (plural unisexuals)

1. An organism which is unisexual.
   • 1978, Floyd L. Downs, Unisexual Ambystoma from the Bass Islands of Lake Erie:

     Populations of ambystomatid salamanders on Middle Bass and North Bass Islands in the western basin of Lake Erie consist largely of female unisexuals. On both islands, diploid unisexuals are more abundant than triploid  ...

   • 2013, David L.G. Noakes, J.A. Ward, Ecology and ethology of fishes: Proceedings of the 2nd biennial symposium on the ethology and behavioral ecology of fishes, held at Normal, Ill., U.S.A., October 19–22, 1979, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 43:

     Samples that included both bisexual and unisexual females were obtained from all localities shown in Figure 2 except sites C, J, and O. The proportion of unisexuals in these samples varied from 2% to 94% of the females in a given sample.

See also

• monosexual

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French unisexuel. Equivalent to uni- +‎ sexual.

Adjective

unisexual m or n (feminine singular unisexuală, masculine plural unisexuali, feminine and neuter plural unisexuale)

1. unisexual

Declension

Declension of unisexual

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	unisexual		unisexuală	unisexuali	unisexuale
	definite	unisexualul		unisexuala	unisexualii	unisexualele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	unisexual		unisexuale	unisexuali	unisexuale
	definite	unisexualului		unisexualei	unisexualelor	unisexualilor

Related terms

• unisexualitate

Spanish

Adjective

unisexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural unisexuales)

1. unisexual

Further reading

• “unisexual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014