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androgyne
[ an-druh-jahyn ]
noun
- an androgynous person, such as one whose appearance is neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine.
- 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.
- Botany. a plant having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.
androgyne
/ ˈændrəˌdʒaɪn /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of androgyne1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of androgyne1
C17: from Old French, via Latin from Greek androgunos, from anēr man + gunē woman
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Example Sentences
Androgyne/Androgynous - someone who neither identifies with, nor presents as, a man or woman.
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The last point is brought within the scope of our inquiry because the Palladium is an androgyne order.
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The scarab it must be remembered was in the Egyptian thought, an androgyne.
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Figures 51 to 60 are varions representations of the union of the four, the arba, the androgyne, or the linga-yoni.
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These are representations of Ashtaroth—the androgyne deity in which the female predominates.
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Sweat-born, egg-born and Androgyne are the terms used in the Secret Doctrine.
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