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hermaphrodite

noun
/hɝˈmæfɹədaɪt/US

Etymology

From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.

Definitions

  1. A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.

  2. Cosexual

    Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.

    • An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.

  3. Dichogamous

    Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.

    • Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.

    2. A hermaphrodite brig.

    3. A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.

    4. An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.

    5. Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.

    6. Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.

    7. Combining two opposing qualities.

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Derived

androhermaphrodite, euhermaphrodite, false hermaphrodite, hermaphrodism, hermaphroditish, hermaphroditism, hermaphroditize, herm, pseudohermaphrodite

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