Consexual

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An individual of the same sex.

    "Group composition by sex was far more variable when tube density was low (0.5 tubes/fish) than when tube density was high (1 tube/fish) (Table 3). Males and females affiliated with consexuals at equal rates."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of the same sex.

    "If, in fact, in L. funebris there is no sex marker on the song elements themselves, then a young bird must be able to sex its tutor. The same is true if the individuals were predisposed to produce the total vocabulary of any population, or of both sexes in their own population, and then under experience had to suppress a sex-specific subset of that repertoire [7]. It seems unrealistic to assume the reverse, that a parent bird can sex by some hidden cues newly hatched sexually monomorphic offspring and direct its own vocabulary to consexual young only."

  2. 2
    Having both male and female reproductive structures in a single individual.

    "Trees are polygamodioecious: There are male, female, and consexual trees. […] The species (Garcinia indica) has a very complex sexual system. Rawat and Bhatnagar (2005) considered this species as gynodioecious, whereas Rajasekharan and Ganeshan (2002) described it as polygamodioecious. Progenies of kokum raised from seeds segregate in the ratio: 37 males: 55 females: 8 consexual (Thatte and Deodhar 2012). Furthermore, male flowers are either pure males or with a pistillode; female flowers are either pure female or with staminodes (Bhaskaran and Krishnan 2012)."

Example

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"If, in fact, in L. funebris there is no sex marker on the song elements themselves, then a young bird must be able to sex its tutor. The same is true if the individuals were predisposed to produce the total vocabulary of any population, or of both sexes in their own population, and then under experience had to suppress a sex-specific subset of that repertoire [7]. It seems unrealistic to assume the reverse, that a parent bird can sex by some hidden cues newly hatched sexually monomorphic offspring and direct its own vocabulary to consexual young only."

Etymology

From con- + sexual.

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