Definitions for hermaphrodite

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hermaphrodite her·maph·ro·dite

Spelling: [hur-maf-ruh-dahyt]

IPA: /hɜrˈmæf rəˌdaɪt/

Hermaphrodite is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 24 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 1339 anagrams from letters in hermaphrodite (adeehhimoprrt).

Definitions for hermaphrodite

noun

1. an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
2. Biology. an organism, as an earthworm or plant, having normally both the male and female organs of generation.
3. a person or thing in which two opposite qualities are combined.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hermaphrodite.
2. combining two opposite qualities.
3. Botany. monoclinous.

Origin of hermaphrodite

1350-1400; Middle English hermofrodite Latin hermaphrodītus Greek hermaphródītos hemaphrodite, name of the son of Hermes and Aphrodite

Examples for hermaphrodite

hermaphrodite (flower), having stamens and pistils in the same blossom, 81.

Snails and worms are hermaphrodite, yet cannot impregnate themselves.

hermaphrodite: an individual in which the characters of both sexes are combined.

Each of them is double, hermaphrodite; lover and loved, in one.

Myanthus barbatus is the hermaphrodite form of same species.

The implication is that using forks was—like being a hermaphrodite—a kind of sexual abnormality.

This notion of a hermaphrodite deity is not monstrous, as it has been called.

It had not occurred to me that even a hermaphrodite plant might be in this condition.

Flower of Saururus or Lizard's-tail; naked, but hermaphrodite.

The snails are male and female in the same individual, or hermaphrodite.