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hermaphrodite
UK /hɝˈmæfɹədaɪt/ US /hɝˈmæfɹədaɪt/
noun 5adj 3
Definitions
noun
1
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.
adj
1
Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
2
Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.
3
Combining two opposing qualities.
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