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doublesex

noun

Etymology

From double + sex.

  1. derived from *séksus✻
  2. derived from *seksus✻
  3. derived from sexus — “gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”
  4. derived from sexe — “genitals; gender”
  5. inherited from sexe — “sex 􂀿distinction between male and female􂁀 and gender”
  6. compounded as doublesex — “double + sex”

Definitions

  1. A gene that is involved in the sex determination system of the fruit fly Drosophila…

    A gene that is involved in the sex determination system of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, expressed in both male and female flies.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doublesex. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA