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Definition summary: (linguistics) Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).

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[Adjective]
(linguistics) Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).
(linguistics) Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.
(by extension) Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex.
(biology and figuratively) Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face.
(by extension) Indeterminate; mixed.
(by extension, usually derogatory) Of a man: effeminate.
[Noun]
(linguistics) An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class.
(biology and figuratively) An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite. [from 17th c.]
(by extension) A transsexual; also, a transvestite.
(by extension, usually derogatory) An effeminate man.