Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hermaphrodite.
  • noun An effeminate man.
  • noun An androgynous plant.
  • noun A eunuch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An hermaphrodite.
  • noun (Bot.) An androgynous plant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

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Examples

  • And those who identify as Androgyne, something of both.

    A.E.Brain 2008

  • Instead of being swathed in the white robes depicted in the card, the Sacred Androgyne was wrapped in a black sheet.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • The World, reversed, showed the Sacred Androgyne from her dreams, the figure that fused with everything it touched.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • Instead of being swathed in the white robes depicted in the card, the Sacred Androgyne was wrapped in a black sheet.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • The World card, and the Sacred Androgyne embracing Lena.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • The World card, and the Sacred Androgyne embracing Lena.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • The World, reversed, showed the Sacred Androgyne from her dreams, the figure that fused with everything it touched.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • Like us they search for fulfillment in a kingdom of truth; their rebellions, their nostalgias, their affinities, their tendencies, like ours, are magnetized by the archetype of the Androgyne.

    Sense & Sensuality 2009

  • The Androgyne stirred at the warbling of a lark that was circling above the pavilion.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Eric Dickens 2009

  • A pink light quivered through the eyelids of the Androgyne, spread in oval wise, in rings, mixed with the song of the lark.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Eric Dickens 2009

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