1. The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.
2. One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
3. (Bot.) (a) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes. (b) One of the groups founded on this distinction. The sex, the female sex; women, in general.
SEXAGENARIAN
Sex`a*ge*na"ri*an, n. Etym: [See Sexagenary.]
Defn: A person who is sixty years old.
SEXAGENARY Sex*ag"e*na*ry, a. Etym: [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf. sexagénaire. See Six.]
Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old. Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal. — Sexagenary, or Sexagesimal, scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.
SEXAGENARY
Sex*ag"e*na*ry, n.
1. Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.
2. A sexagenarian. Sir W. Scott.