Definition of "bisexual"

(of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to both same-gendered and different-gendered partners. Similar to pansexual  examples

(chiefly botany) Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.

1. (botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.  examples

2. (botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.  examples

3. (botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.  examples

4. (botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.  examples

5. (rare) Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.  quotations

   Quotations

   • To say that Loki is bisexual means that he readily alternates between the male and female sexes, becoming female at will or as needed.

     2004, Lois Bragg, Oedipus Borealis: The Aberrant Body in Old Icelandic Myth and Saga

   • Among the arguments put forth for Ishtar's hermaphroditic or bisexual character is the practice of transvestism in religious rites associated with her (e.g. Harris 2000: 170; Groneberg 1986: 39).

     2013, Zainab Bahrani, Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia

6. Androgynous.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • The bisexual name, such as Marion and Carol (and Evelyn and Vivian in England), is frequently a source of annoyance and embarrassment to the letter writer, who, if he does not know his ambiguously named correspondent personally […]

     1947, Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet, American Speech

   • At the desk, he completed the registration card, signing his name Jean Cable and giving a New York address. He did not know for sure that he was being pursued, but if so, he knew his pursuers would check new registrations around the city. The bisexual name would give them one more obstacle […]

     1976, Frank V. Fowlkes, The Peruvian Contracts: A Novel, Putnam Publishing Group, page 128

   • And although Stevens introduces Nanzia Nunzio as a woman, the inflections of the bisexual name and the symbolism implicit in the messenger's characteristics suggest that the "contemplated spouse" is something more than a woman.

     1984, The Wallace Stevens Journal

   • Consider the identity play of the French artist who gave herself the bisexual name of Claude Cahun (1894–1954).

     2003, Efrat Tseëlon, Masquerade and Identities: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality, Routledge, page 59

   • On August 16, in Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Michael McConnell alone applied for a marriage license for himself and Baker, under his new adoptive name. The "bisexual name of Pat […] "

     2005, Minnesota Law Review, volume 89, number 6, page 1762

   • The Bionic Woman of the television serial of the seventies, though she wears ordinary dress most of the time, has the bisexual name of Jamie Summers.

     2013, Marina Warner, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Oxford University Press, USA, page 307

(chiefly biology) Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).  quotations

(chiefly biology) Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).  quotations

A person who is bisexual.  quotations  examples

(botany, rare) A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.

(chiefly biology) An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.  quotations