Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affected, with or pertaining to hermaphroditism; having the character of a hermaphrodite; being of both sexes.
Wiktionary
- adj. biology Possessing the reproductive organs of both genders.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Biol.) Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal; characterized by hermaphroditism. Opposite of
dioecious . - adj. (Botany) having pistils and stamens in the same flower. Opposite of
diclinous .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to monoclinous plants
- adj. of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs
Examples
“She discusses how cases out on the margins of our binary labels, such as hermaphroditic children, show the absurdities of our cultural constructions.”
“In assorted prose fragments on natural history and the Linnaean system he composed between 1823 and 1825, Clare compares Linnaean claims about female flowers to what he sees in plants and trees and concludes that some trees are "hermaphroditic," and thus do not propagate exclusively by way of a female reproductive organ (Clare Natural History 101-2, 108).”
“He's also over 30 and hermaphroditic which is so fucking rare I feel the need to mention it.”
“Many of the paintings depict naked hermaphroditic girls, which at first glance makes their beauty disturbing.”
“When did we on the left forget how to fight back in dark alleys and call our enemies what they are: degenerate psychopaths who wear women's corsets, have smelly feet and hermaphroditic tendencies?”
“Are we supposed to suspect that these races are hermaphroditic or reproduce by budding?”
“When he was drafting the amendment, Chisum undoubtedly would have never imagined a world in which a hermaphroditic person made surgically male might actually feel female and also be attracted to that gender.”
“In the imagination, we can surely be as hermaphroditic as the seer Tiresias, whom the Greek gods turned into a woman for seven years.”
“Until he snarled, his lips looked like a painting of a black clad Asian hermaphroditic angel in the Renaissance would have looked.”
“I spend most of my research time studying hermaphroditic gastropods, that is, snails that have both male and female organs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hermaphroditic’.
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hermaphroditic.
chained_bear Hmm... maybe this person decides s/he is not Catholic after all? Or s/he decides s/he is a Catholic Protestant Jew.
Good question... Feb 15, 2007
reesetee Abraxas, some people of quite determined sex/orientation have trouble adhering to Church guidelines. But that's just me going on.... ;-) Feb 13, 2007
abraxaszugzwang Well, what I mean is, how is this person supposed to adhere to church guidelines if they're of undetermined sex/orientation? Feb 13, 2007
chained_bear I think it would say that it's a sin to be bisexually active but not to be bisexually oriented. (Just a wild guess!) The other stuff... can one really help it? Feb 13, 2007
abraxaszugzwang I'd like to know what the catholic church would have to say about a bisexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite. Feb 13, 2007