primary sexual characteristic

1. 1.

   the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction)

   Synonymsprimary sex characteristicprimary sex character

   Broadersex characteristic

Questions about primary sexual characteristic

What does primary sexual characteristic mean?

primary sexual characteristic means "the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction)".

What is another word for primary sexual characteristic?

Close synonyms include primary sex characteristic, primary sex character. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is primary sexual characteristic a common word?

primary sexual characteristic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.