Gender-specific

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Referring to a word or expression that refers to one gender only.

    "It says the Rule Book term 'pilotman' "has recently been raised as an issue as it is gender-specific", and that it is "developing a proposal to replace it using gender neutral language"."

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"The lack of gender-specific words for "cousin" in English is an example of a lexical gap."

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