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hermaphrodite
[ hur-maf-ruh-dahyt ]
noun
- Biology. an organism, such as an earthworm or plant, having both male and female reproductive organs at the same time or throughout the lifespan.
- Older Use: Offensive.
- a person who has both testicular and ovarian tissue. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- any intersex person.
- something in which two opposite qualities are combined.
adjective
- Biology. of, relating to, or characteristic of an organism having both male and female reproductive organs. gynandrous ( def ).
- Botany. monoclinous ( def ).
- combining two opposite qualities.
hermaphrodite
/ hɜːˈmæfrəˌdaɪt /
noun
- biology an individual animal or flower that has both male and female reproductive organs
- a person having both male and female sexual characteristics and genital tissues
- a person or thing in which two opposite forces or qualities are combined
adjective
- having the characteristics of a hermaphrodite
hermaphrodite
/ hər-măf′rə-dīt′ /
- An organism, such as an earthworm or flowering plant, having both male and female reproductive organs in a single individual.
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Derived Forms
- herˌmaphroˈditically, adverb
- herˌmaphroˈditic, adjective
- herˈmaphroditˌism, noun
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Other Words From
- her·maph·ro·dit·ic [hur-maf-r, uh, -, dit, -ik], her·maph·ro·dit·i·cal adjective
- her·maph·ro·dit·i·cal·ly adverb
- her·maph·ro·dit·ism [hur-, maf, -r, uh, -dahy-tiz-, uh, m], her·maph·ro·dism [hur-, maf, -r, uh, -diz-, uh, m], noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hermaphrodite1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hermaphrodite1
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Example Sentences
Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi seems to produce its own eggs and sperm, making it a “self-fertilizing hermaphrodite.”
The implication is that using forks was—like being a hermaphrodite—a kind of sexual abnormality.
So embroiled in fact, that his sex was impossible to determine; he looked like a little hermaphrodite.
Hermaphrodite mollusks, with a marvellously complicated sexual apparatus, ought also to be studied separately.
The amphioxus, the bridge between invertebrates and vertebrates, is not hermaphrodite.
Each worm is bisexual or hermaphrodite, on which account they multiply with great rapidity.
And therefore natural philosophers say, that an hermaphrodite is impotent in the privy parts of a man, as appears by experience.
They are in a hermaphrodite condition, out of which they develop into either males or females.
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