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/hɜːmˈæfɹədˌaɪt/
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[ US /hɝˈmæfɹəˌdaɪt/ ]
[ US /hɝˈmæfɹəˌdaɪt/ ]
NOUN
- one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
ADJECTIVE
- of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs
How To Use hermaphrodite In A Sentence
- Those unfamiliar with the term "intersex" may still recognize the term "hermaphrodite" -- a single human possessing both male and female genitalia -- which is one variety of intersexuality. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- Potentially the hermaphrodite dissolves gender difference and, at least in its associated idea of androgyny, has become acceptable.
- The barramundi is also a hermaphrodite, born male but switching to female at sexual maturity, at around five years old, when they begin travelling downstream to spawn.
- IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites
- There is thus a dynamic interaction between the processes of sex allocation and other sexually selected strategies in animal hermaphrodites.
- There may seem to be a lot of men supporting you Iain but some of them will be Lib Dems are better referred to as spavined hermaphrodites not knowing which way to turn. The Male Dominated Blogosphere: Was Melissa Kite Right?
- The pauciflorous capitulum consists of outer female florets with short ligules, inner hermaphrodite florets without a pappus, and five outer involucral bracts, up to 2 cm long, possessing long-stalked glandular hairs.
- In all but two plants examined, this flower matured as a hermaphrodite; in the exceptions, the carpel aborted, producing a male flower.
- The pistillate flower of the cyathium develops before the male ones; thus each cyathium is functionally a protogynous hermaphrodite ‘flower’.
- Nilotes held the moon to be of “male-female sex,” the men sacrificing to Luna and the women to Lunus. 387 Isis also was a hermaphrodite, the idea being that Aether or Air (the lower heavens) was the menstruum of generative nature; and Damascius explained the tenet by the all-fruitful and prolific powers of the atmosphere. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night