Hermaphrodite Definition

hər-măfrə-dīt
hermaphrodites
noun
hermaphrodites
Any of various animals, as the earthworm, possessing both male and female sexual organs.
Webster's New World
A plant having stamens and pistils in the same flower.
Webster's New World
An individual possessing secondary sex characteristics and gonadal tissue of both the male and female of its species.
Webster's New World
Something that is a combination of disparate or contradictory elements.
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Hermaphrodite brig.

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adjective

Having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads, in one individual or organism.

Wiktionary

Hermaphroditic.

Webster's New World

Combining two opposing qualities.

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Other Word Forms of Hermaphrodite

Noun

Singular:
hermaphrodite
Plural:
hermaphrodites

Origin of Hermaphrodite

  • Middle English hermofrodite from Medieval Latin hermofrodītus from Latin Hermaphrodītus Hermaphroditus, hermaphrodite Hermaphroditus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Hermaphroditos, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, possessing both male and female qualities.

    From Wiktionary

Hermaphrodite Sentence Examples

  • The flowers are hermaphrodite and regular with parts in fives (pentamerous) throughout, though exceptions from the pentamerous arrangement occur.

  • The majority of species are hermaphrodite and many are capable of self-impregnation.

  • Cycladidae.-One siphon or two free siphons with simple orifices; pallial line simple; hermaphrodite, embryos incubated in external gill-plate; freshwater, Cyclas; British.

  • But even in plants with hermaphrodite flowers self-fertilization is often provided against by the structure of the parts or by the period of ripening of the organs.

  • To allure and attract them to visit the flower the odoriferous secretions and gay colours are developed, and the position and complicated structure of the parts of the flower are adapted to the perfect performance of the process, It is comparatively rare in hermaphrodite flowers for self-fertilization to occur, and the various forms of dichogamy, dimorphism and trimorphism are fitted to prevent this.

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