Meaning

9 senses
  1. Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)

    bisexuell

    бисексуа́льныйbisɛksuálʹnyj

    бісексуа́льнийbiseksuálʹnyj

    sexually attracted to both sexes

  2. Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.

    Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.

  3. Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.

  4. Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.

  5. Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.

  6. (rare)Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.

    Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.

  7. Androgynous.

  8. Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).

  9. Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).

Examples

49 sentences
  1. Tom is either gay or bisexual, I think.

    Гадаю, Том або гомосексуаліст, або бісексуал.

    ruЯ думаю, что Том или мужеложец, или бисексуал.

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  2. Mary's wife is bisexual.

    Дружина Мері бісексуальна.

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  3. Mary is bisexual.

    Мері — бісексуалка.

    ruМария - бисексуалка.

    deMaria ist bisexuell.

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  4. His new love interest is bisexual.

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  5. That show has huge bisexual energy.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
botany: having both male and female organs:
sexually attracted to both men and women:
Русский
By meaning 2
botany: having both male and female organs:
sexually attracted to both men and women:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
botany: having both male and female organs:

Origin

From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synony

From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or to the same sex) must be partly of another sex and thus "hermaphroditic".

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