English Dictionary

bisexual

IPA（発音記号）

/baɪˈsɛk.sju.əl/

形容詞

人間・動物 稀用

(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).

日本語の意味

両性愛：人間やその他の動物において、狭義では男性と女性の両方に、また広義では複数または全ての性別に対して性的魅力や興味を持つ状態を指す。

Jordan, who is bisexual, told their friends that they are attracted to people of different genders.

ジョーダンは友人に両性愛者であることを打ち明け、自分が複数の性別の人に惹かれると説明した。

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[…]

more bisexual （ comparative ）

most bisexual （ superlative ）