Definitions for hermaphrodites

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hermaphrodites her·maph·ro·dite

Spelling: [hur-maf-ruh-dahyt]

IPA: /hɜrˈmæf rəˌdaɪt/

Hermaphrodites is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 24 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 2961 anagrams from letters in hermaphrodites (adeehhimoprrst).

Definitions for hermaphrodites

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 hermaphrodites

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

Examples for hermaphrodites

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

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

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

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

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

Myanthus barbatus is the hermaphrodite form of same species.

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

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

Snails and worms are hermaphrodite, yet cannot impregnate themselves.

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