hermaphrodite

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
24
Words With Friends
24
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/hɝˈmæfɹədaɪt/

Definition of hermaphrodite

10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (dated, offensive)A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
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noun

  1. (dated, offensive)A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
  2. Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
    “An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.”
  3. Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
    “Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.”
  4. A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
  5. A hermaphrodite brig.
  6. A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
  7. (World-War-I, historical)An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.

adj

  1. (dated, not-comparable, offensive)Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
  2. (not-comparable)Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.
  3. (not-comparable)Combining two opposing qualities.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.

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