ambisextrous

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Bisexual.

   • His hips were jaunty, And his gestures too dextrous. A versatile lad! He was ambisextrous.
   • Ivor was ambisextrous and loved women physically, too.
   • “One of those what?” “You know, ambisextrous.” “Let's just say Faith loves beauty, whatever its form.”
2. 2

   Epicene

   Epicene; androgynous.

   • “Yatakang?” said the purser of the express, an elegant young biv-type sporting ambisextrous shoulder-long bangs.
   • The embryogenesis of such male-directed stromal cells remains a puzzle, and it can be only theorized that it represents masculine differentiation of the mesenchyme derived from the embryonic “ambisextrous” primitive gonads.
   • Throughout the text the terms ‘he’, ‘him’, ‘his’, should be taken to be ‘ambisextrous’ and to refer to ‘him’ and ‘her’.
3. 3

   Having both male and female, or masculine and feminine, elements.

   • One searches to see whether the author [of “He created them male and female”, Genesis 5:2] meant to say that man was at the start ambisextrous […]
   • “So you think, wonderful woman; but you're so utterly unlike your sisters in that particular. You're ambisextrous, do you know that?”
   • My signature with either hand is the same. I’m ambidextrous, ambisextrous. I’m intermediate sex.

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