Meaning of Hermaphrodite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
   dated, offensive
2. Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
3. Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
4. A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
5. A hermaphrodite brig.
6. A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
7. An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.
   World-War-I, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.”

“Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.”

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