gender
ଲିଙ୍ଗ
ଲିଙ୍ଗ
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
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus
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