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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024her•maph•ro•dite /hɜrˈmæfrəˌdaɪt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Pathologya living thing in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present.
her•maph•ro•dit•ic /hɜrˌmæfrəˈdɪtɪk/USA pronunciation adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024her•maph•ro•dite (hûr maf′rə dīt′),USA pronunciation n. - Pathologyan individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Cf. pseudohermaphrodite.
- Developmental Biology[Biol.]an organism, as an earthworm or plant, having normally both the male and female organs of generation.
- a person or thing in which two opposite qualities are combined.
adj. - of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a hermaphrodite.
- combining two opposite qualities.
- [Bot.]monoclinous.
- Greek hermaphródītos hemaphrodite, name of the son of Hermes and Aphrodite
- Latin hermaphrodītus
- 1350–1400; Middle English hermofrodite
her•maph•ro•dit•ic (hûr maf′rə dit′ik),USA pronunciation her•maph′ro•dit′i•cal, her•maph•ro•dit•ish (hûr maf′rə dī′tish),USA pronunciation adj. her•maph′ro•dit′i•cal•ly, adv. |