hermaphrodite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

adj

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hermaphrodite hermaphrodites

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

maphrodite morphodite mophrodite androgyne gynandromorph dichogamous cosexual intersex androgynous hermaphroditic ambisexual

berdache two-spirit genderqueer

androhermaphrodite euhermaphrodite false hermaphrodite hermaphrodism hermaphroditish hermaphroditism hermaphroditize herm pseudohermaphrodite

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