sex-limited

American

[seks-lim-i-tid] / ˈsɛksˌlɪm ɪ tɪd /

adjective

Genetics.

(of a gene character) expressed in one sex only.

sex-limited British

adjective

genetics of or designating a character or the gene producing it that appears in one sex only

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Etymology

Origin of sex-limited

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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Working on a species of African butterfly, the Squinting Bush Brown, researchers from the University of Liverpool have discovered a radically different molecular switch that does not require a sex-limited gene or chromosome.

From Science Daily

No mental trait has ever been proved to be sex-limited in inheritance, or to exist as a secondary sex character.

From Project Gutenberg

The phenomenon is expressed, biologically, in the term, "sex-limited factor"—an incalculable something in the embryo which limits its sex to the sex of one only of its parents.

From Project Gutenberg

However, these books stop where the problems of human life begin and should be supplemented by lessons for sex-limited classes.

From Project Gutenberg

In other words, the defect is more or less sex-limited.

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