HERMAPHRODITE
\hɜːmˈafɹədˌa͡ɪt], \hɜːmˈafɹədˌaɪt], \h_ɜː_m_ˈa_f_ɹ_ə_d_ˌaɪ_t]\
Definitions of HERMAPHRODITE
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- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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An animal or a plant in which the two sexes are united: an abnormal individual in whom are united the properties of both sexes.
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Uniting the distinctions of both sexes.
By Daniel Lyons
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One who possesses the attributes of male and female: who unites in himself the two sexes. A term, applied to an animal or plant which is, at the same time, both male and female. True hermaphrodites are only met with in the lower degrees of the animal scale, amongst the zoophytes, mollusca, or gasteropoda. The individuals of the human species, regarded as hermaphrodites, owe this appearance to a vicious conformation of the genital organs; a kind of monstrosity, which renders them unfit for generation, although an attentive examination may exhibit the true sex. Hermaphrodites have, likewise, been described, which, instead of uniting the attributes of both sexes, cannot be considered male or female. These have been called neutral hermaphrodites.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] An animal of the invertebrate and molluscous or radiate class, having both male and female organs;—a human being whose sexual organs are imperfect and equivocal;—a flower that contains both the stamen and the pistil within the same calyx.