VIRILISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a female (or prematurely in a young boy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("virilism" is a kind of...):

sex character; sex characteristic; sexual characteristic (those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other)

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