hermaphrodite
Meanings
Plural: hermaphrodites
Noun
- one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
- A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
- Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
- Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
- A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
- A hermaphrodite brig.
- A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
- An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.
Adjective Satellite
- of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs
Adj
- Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
- Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.
- Combining two opposing qualities.
Origin / Etymology
From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.
Synonyms
ambisexual, androgyne, androgynous, cosexual, dichogamous, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphroditic, intersex, maphrodite, mophrodite, morphodite
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