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an⋅drog⋅y⋅nous

  [an-droj-uh-nuhs]
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–adjective
1. being both male and female; hermaphroditic.
2. having both masculine and feminine characteristics.
3. having an ambiguous sexual identity.
4. neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine in appearance: the androgynous look of many rock stars.
5. Botany. having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.
Origin:
1620–30; androgyne + -ous

Related forms:
an⋅drog⋅y⋅ny, noun
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an·drog·y·nous   (ān-drŏj'ə-nəs)   
adj.  

  1. Biology Having both female and male characteristics; hermaphroditic.

  2. Being neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine, as in dress, appearance, or behavior.


[From Latin androgynus, hermaphrodite, from Greek androgunos : andro-, andro- + gunē, woman; see -gynous.]
an·drog'y·nous·ly adv., an·drog'y·ny (-ə-nē) n.
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Word Origin & History

androgynous 
1628, from L. androgynus, from Gk. androgynos, "male and female in one," from andros gen. of aner "male" + gyne "woman" (see queen). Androgyne is attested from 1552.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: an·drog·y·nous
Pronunciation: an-'dräj-&-n&s
Function: adjective
: having the characteristics or nature of bothmale and female —an·drog·y·ny /-nE/ noun plural -nies
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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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