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“sex characteristic”

We have one entry that includes the term sex characteristic.

secondary sex characteristic

noun

: a physical characteristic (such as the breasts of a female mammal or the breeding plumage of a male bird) that appears in members of one sex at puberty or in seasonal breeders at the breeding season and is not directly concerned with reproduction


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