hermaphrodite
A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
Other meanings
Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
“An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.”
Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
“Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.”
Related words
- androhermaphrodite
- euhermaphrodite
- false hermaphrodite
- hermaphrodism
- hermaphroditish
- hermaphroditism
- hermaphroditize
- pseudohermaphrodite
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This definition is adapted from “hermaphrodite” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.