SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secondary sexual characteristic mean? 

• SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTIC (noun)
  The noun SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTIC has 1 sense:

1. the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature)

  Familiarity information: SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTIC (noun)

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Meaning:

The genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature)

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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

secondary sex character; secondary sex characteristic; secondary sexual characteristic

Hypernyms ("secondary sexual characteristic" is a kind of...):

sex character; sex characteristic; sexual characteristic (those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other)