gender

gender (http://definr.com/gender)

     n 1: 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 [syn: grammatical gender]
     2: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of
        their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex
        of the foetus" [syn: sex, sexuality]