A supposed phenomenon in which an individual or gamete of a simple organism may act as either female or male depending on whether it is more or less male than the one it interacts with.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Quarterly Review of Biology. After German relative Sexualität.
Definition of relative sexuality in US English:
relative sexuality
noun
Biology historical
A supposed phenomenon in which an individual or gamete of a simple organism may act as either female or male depending on whether it is more or less male than the one it interacts with.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Quarterly Review of Biology. After German relative Sexualität.