- 1. n. 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 n. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles Source: ecdict
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