gynander

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  1. An effeminate man. [Rare.] An emasculated type, product of short-haired women and long-haired men, gynanders and androgynes. Scribner's Mag., III. 631.
  2. A plant belonging to the class Gynandria.

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  1. from Greek γύνανδρος, of doubtful sex, from γυνή, a female (in modern botany a pistil), + ἀνηρ (ἀνδρ-), male: see Gynandria.
 

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