gender

Words with a similar base: gender, grammatical_gender

'gender'

[gender.n.01] as in: 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

'gender'

[sex.n.04] as in: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

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Examples:
she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus