n. A human being in whom the sexual characteristics of both sexes are to some extent, really or apparently, combined; also, one of the higher animals which is similarly deformed.n. One of those lower animals which normally possess the parts of generation of both the male and the female, so that reproduction can take place without the union of two individuals.n. In botany, a flower that contains both the stamen and the pistil perfectly developed, or the male and female organs of generation, within the same floral envelop or on the same receptacle. See perfect.Same as hermaphroditic.