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😏 Sexual activity 🐣 Finding animal sex
sexing

sexing

7.5
Finding which young animals or plants are male and which are female
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛksɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sexado
  • The researchers employed advanced techniques for sexing fish at an early developmental stage.

And those doctors took me in for sex determination.

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Examples

  • The scientist explained the importance of sexing chick embryos to ensure proper breeding.

  • In agriculture, sexing seedlings helps farmers choose the best plants for cultivation.

  • So their nature tends to use these these differences to as part of sex determination.

Surface Forms

sexing singular
sexings plural

Morphology

sexing = sex (transparent) = sex + ing

Derived from the verb 'sex' + the gerundive/nominalizing '-ing' to indicate the process, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Sexing comes from sex ('male or female') and the ending -ing ('doing'), and in farming or science it means checking or sorting animals and plants by their sex. So sexing is the process of finding out if a young animal or plant is male or female.