half-sider

noun — 2 senses

half-sider

noun
1

A bilateral gynandromorph, an animal that is one sex on the left and another sex on the right.

2

An animal that is one color on the left and another on the right.

  • If the lost choromosome had been the one carrying the blue gene, then a visual half-sider would not have resulted, although the bird would still be a genetic half-sider, one side pure Light Green and the other side Light Green/blue.1961, Thomas Geoffrey Taylor, Cyril Warner, Genetics for Budgerigar Breeders, page 104:

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