androgynous

adjective

being both male and female; hermaphroditic.

having both masculine and feminine characteristics.

having an ambiguous sexual identity.

neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine in appearance: the androgynous look of many rock stars.

Botany. having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.

Origin:
1620–30; androgyne + -ous

Related forms

an·drog·y·ny, noun

Can be confused: androgenous, androgynous.

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androgynous (ænˈdrɒdʒɪnəs)

—*adj*
1.	botany having male and female flowers in the same inflorescence, as cuckoo pint
2.	having male and female characteristics; hermaphrodite

an'drogyny

—n

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androgynous

1620s, from L. androgynus, from Gk. androgynos "hermaphrodite, male and female in one," from andros gen. of aner "male" (see anthropo-) + gyne "woman" (see queen). Androgyne is attested from 1550s.

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androgynous

(ān-drŏj'ə-nəs) Pronunciation Key
Having both female and male characteristics.

androgyny noun (ān-drŏj'ə-nē)

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"We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other—male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it."

-James Baldwin

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