1. (

• gender ,
• grammatical_gender

) 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 ;

2. (

• sex ,
• gender ,
• sexuality

) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" ;