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There are two sexes or genders. There is the male gender and there is the female gender. Males and females are different, both physically and mentally. Humans are both male and female and animals are both male and female. If you have a dog, it is either a girl dog or a boy dog.noun
1. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
noun
1. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
e.g. she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus
Synonym: sexsexuality
2. 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
Synonym: grammatical gender
noun
1. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
adj
1. having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer
Synonym: mesomorphic
2. having or suggesting great physical power or force
e.g. the muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony
3. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight
rugged and powerful
e.g. a hefty athlete
a muscular boxer
powerful arms
Synonym: brawnyheftypowerfulsinewy
4. of or relating to or consisting of muscle
e.g. muscular contraction
adv
1. in accord with physical laws
e.g. it is physically impossible