DESEX

sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix

(verb) make infertile; “in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

desex (third-person singular simple present desexes, present participle desexing, simple past and past participle desexed)

(transitive) To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization.

Anagrams

• SEDEX, dexes, sex ed, sexed

Source: Wiktionary



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SOUARI

(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil


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The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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