hermaphroditic
adjEtymology From hermaphrodite + -ic.
1
Of or pertaining to hermaphrodism; being a hermaphrodite.
2
Biology, Natural sciences Possessing the reproductive organs of both sexes.
3
Relating to the metaphysical integration of two complementary principles, often framed as masculine and feminine, active and receptive, solar and lunar, force and form, etc.
- Balanced force is personified by hermaphroditic union of the two principles.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 106:
4
Humorous Unisex.
- At twenty-five she [Clifton Baker] spoke all the most useful living languages and wrote the four most important dead ones. Eight letters (which she never by any chance used) after her hermaphroditic name were some evidence of a scientific grounding […]1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
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Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Of, related to, or having both male and female connectability for fastening.
- Synonyms
- hermaphrodite, intersexual, ambisexual
- Derived terms
- euhermaphroditic, hermaphroditically, pseudohermaphroditic
- Related terms
- androgynous