sex-linkage sex linkage • sex-linked · · · Info · Definitions · Characters · · sex-linkage · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 11 · · Length 3 · · Syllables Definitions · · · (noun) an association between genes in sex chromosomes that makes some characteristics appear more frequently in one sex than in the other. Synonyms: sex linkage. · · Noun Definition 1 Characters · · - hyphen-minus U+002D a latin small letter a U+0061 e latin small letter e U+0065 g latin small letter g U+0067 i latin small letter i U+0069 k latin small letter k U+006B l latin small letter l U+006C n latin small letter n U+006E s latin small letter s U+0073 x latin small letter x U+0078