English Dictionary

bisexual

/baɪˈsɛk.sju.əl/

adj

(of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to both men and women (by a narrow definition) or to people of multiple or any genders (by a broad definition; compare pansexual).

She is proud to identify as bisexual.

意味（1）

(of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to both men and women (by a narrow definition) or to people of multiple or any genders (by a broad definition; compare pansexual).

意味（2）

(botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.

意味（3）

(botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.

意味（4）

(botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.

意味（5）

(botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.

意味（6）

(rare) Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.

Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.

意味（7）

Androgynous.

The bisexual name, such as Marion and Carol (and Evelyn and Vivian in England), is frequently a source of annoyance and embarrassment to the letter writer, who, if he does not know his ambiguously named correspondent personally […]

意味（8）

(chiefly biology) Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).

It is probable, therefore, that hermaphroditism must be regarded as a variation from an earlier condition in which the sexes were separate, and that the hermaphrodites which occasionally appear in normally bisexual species are produced by variations occurring sporadically in the same direction.

意味（9）

(chiefly biology) Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).

[…] where the parthenogenetic and bisexual generations do not differ in any character except their manner of reproduction[…]