Noun gender has 2 senses
  1. gender, grammatical gender - 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
    --1 is a kind of grammatical category, syntactic category
    --1 has particulars: feminine; masculine; neuter
  2. sex, gender, sexuality - the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
    --2 is a kind of physiological property
    --2 has particulars:
     maleness, masculinity; androgyny, hermaphroditism, bisexuality; femaleness, feminineness
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