androgyne

[ an-druh-jahyn ]

noun
  1. an androgynous person, such as one whose appearance is neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine.

  2. a person whose gender identity is linked to androgyny, such as by being a blend of male and female or by being neither male nor female.

    • Older Use: Often Offensive. a person having reproductive characteristics of both sexes.

    • a mythical early form of human in which the sexes had not been divided into two separate categories, and instead each person was both male and female at the same time.

  1. Botany. a plant having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.

Origin of androgyne

1
First recorded in 1545–55; from Middle French, from Latin androgynus, from Greek andrógynos “hermaphrodite,” equivalent to andro- + gyn- + -os, masculine noun suffix

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androgyne

/ (ˈændrəˌdʒaɪn) /


noun
  1. another word for hermaphrodite

Origin of androgyne

1
C17: from Old French, via Latin from Greek androgunos, from anēr man + gunē woman

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