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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unisexual

Unisexual \U`ni*sex"u*al\, a. [Uni- + sexual: cf. F. unisexuel.] (Biol.) Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di[oe]cious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di[oe]cious.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unisexual

1802, "of one sex, having only one sex," from uni- + sexual. Meaning "of or for a single sex" (of schools, etc.) is from 1885. Meaning "unisex" is from 1970. Related: Unisexual.

Wiktionary
unisexual

a. Of an organism, having characteristics of single sex (as opposed to hermaphrodites).

WordNet
unisexual

adj. relating to only one sex or having only one type of sexual organ; not hermaphroditic

Usage examples of "unisexual".

He could imagine the effect this would have on races that were unisexual, or where sexual discrimination was not present, or, worse, in a matrilineal society.

It must have struck most naturalists as a strange anomaly that, in the case of both animals and plants, species of the same family and even of the same genus, though agreeing closely with each other in almost their whole organisation, yet are not rarely, some of them hermaphrodites, and some of them unisexual.

But if, in fact, all hermaphrodites do occasionally intercross with other individuals, the difference between hermaphrodites and unisexual species, as far as function is concerned, becomes very small.

Morgaine guessed that the clitoral mechanism was the Whore's vision of a future unisexual race.