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BISEXUAL PERSON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is sexually attracted to both sexes

Synonyms:

bisexual; bisexual person

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("bisexual person" is a kind of...):

sensualist (a person who enjoys sensuality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bisexual person"):

androgyne; epicene; epicene person; gynandromorph; hermaphrodite; intersex (one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made)

pseudohermaphrodite (someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth)

switch-hitter (slang term for a bisexual person)

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