hermaphrodite
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hermaphrodite
- /hɝˈmæfɹədaɪt/ US
Where it comes from
From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.
noun hermaphrodites
- A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
- Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils. An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.
- Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle. Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.
- 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.
Similar: maphrodite, morphodite, mophrodite, androgyne, gynandromorph, dichogamous, cosexual, intersex
adjective
- Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
- Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.
- Combining two opposing qualities.
Similar: androgynous, hermaphroditic, intersex, ambisexual
