Androgynous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Biology Having both female and male characteristics; hermaphroditic.
  • adj. Being neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine, as in dress, appearance, or behavior.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.
  • adj. Possessing qualities of both sexes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic.
  • adj. Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having two sexes; being both male and female; of the nature of a hermaphrodite; hermaphroditical.
  • In botany: Having male and female flowers in the same inflorescence, as in some species of Carex. In mosses, having antheridia and archegonia in the same involucre.
  • In zoology, uniting the characters of both sexes; having the parts of both sexes; being of both sexes; hermaphrodite. The androgynous condition is a very common one in invertebrate animals. The two sexes may coexist at the same time in one individual, which impregnates itself, as a snail; or two such individuals may impregnate each other, as earthworms; or one individual may be male and female at different times, developing first the product of the one sex and then that of the other.
  • Having or partaking of the mental characteristics of both sexes.
  • Also androgynal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. relating to or exhibiting both female and male sex organs but with a predominantly female appearance
  • adj. having both male and female characteristics
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