gender

1. Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). (countable, uncountable) · the gene is activated in both genders· The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
2. Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.) (countable, uncountable)
3. A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. (countable, uncountable)
4. Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”). (countable, uncountable)
5. The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type). (countable, uncountable)

Plural genders