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hermaphrodite
hermaphrodite
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her·maph·ro·dite
/ hərˈmafrədīt/
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n.
a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.
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Bot.
a plant having stamens and pistils in the same flower.
∎ archaic
a person or thing combining opposite qualities or characteristics.
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adj.
of or denoting a person, animal, or plant of this kind:
hermaphrodite creatures in classical sculpture.
DERIVATIVES:
her·maph·ro·dit·ic
/ -ˌmafrəˈditik/ adj.
her·maph·ro·dit·i·cal
/ -ˌmafrəˈditikəl/ adj.
her·maph·ro·dit·ism
/ hərˈmafrədiˌtizəm/
(or her·maph·ro·dism
/ -ˌdizəm/ ) n.
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Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...generating, ways in which the hermaphrodite was scrutinized and portrayed...novel Description de l'Isle des Hermaphrodites by Thomas Artus. This impressive...demonstrates how the figure of the hermaphrodite personified the key issues at...
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How to look at a hermaphrodite in early modern England.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the early modern hermaphrodite in a range of fields...rich and diverse--hermaphrodites figure in medical...skirts of historical hermaphrodites and publish descriptions...particulars of the hermaphrodite's members up to...generate two different hermaphrodites in the early modern...
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The Jesus hermaphrodite: science and sex difference in premodern Europe.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Ideas; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...and even hermaphrodites. Because the alchemical hermaphrodite was a symbol...nature of the hermaphrodite was elevated...herself as a hermaphrodite, the perfect...studies of hermaphrodites have been published...
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Battle of the hermaphrodites: sexes clash even when sharing the same body.
Magazine article from: Science News; 9/16/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...among simultaneous-hermaphrodite species with internal...these simultaneous hermaphrodites, says Michiels...apply to simultaneous hermaphrodites. For example, conflicts...that tactics in the hermaphrodite gender war would...for thinking about hermaphrodites. It urges theorists...
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The sartorial hermaphrodite.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...of Wycherley's works: "A famous hermaphrodite (temp. James I--Charles I...abilities and inabilities attributed to the hermaphrodite; he cites an epitaph for aniseed Robin...called Anniseed-Water Robin, an hermaphrodite, that is to say, a person of both...
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On the function of hermaphrodite florets in female inflorescences of Petasites japonicus (Asteraceae).(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Botany; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...concluded that the hermaphrodite florets in female...floral attraction, hermaphrodite floret, floral resemblance...morphologiquement hermaphrodites, mais fonctionnellement...que les fleurons hermaphrodites des inflorescences...florale, fleurons hermaphrodite, ressemblance florale...
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Interview: Elizabeth Goodwin of the University of Wisconsin discusses hermaphrodite worms
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 11/9/2003; ; 698 words
; ...be transformed from a hermaphrodite into a male. HANSEN...farther distances than an hermaphrodite. Essentially the hermaphrodite, although it doesn...environments or perhaps other hermaphrodites. HANSEN: So if food...
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Twins, hermaphrodites, and an androgynous albino deity: twins and sculpted twin figures among the Bamana and Maninka of Mali.
Magazine article from: African Arts; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...two separate sperm), true and pseudo-hermaphrodites (tyetemousotew), and albinos (yefegew...resources. Such access is not extended to hermaphrodites, pseudo-hermaphrodites, and albinos, who are also considered twin...
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L'Isle des hermaphrodites.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...current title--L'Isle des Hermaphrodites--is an editorial decision...would record L'Isle des hermaphrodites under the name of Artus...editions--"The Isle of Hermaphrodites recently discovered, with...rituals of an anonymous Hermaphrodite. Numerous pages are spent...
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Book-ends: the role of the eunuch and the hermaphrodite in Nicolas Venette's Tableau de l'amour considere dans l'estat du mariage.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...dramatically by eunuchs and hermaphrodites. This last section...classification of the hermaphrodite and ends with a detailed...the eunuch and the hermaphrodite display the visible...vein, eunuchs and hermaphrodites can be viewed as...of the eunuch or hermaphrodite, according to Venette...
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Hermaphrodite
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Hermaphrodite A hermaphrodite is any organism with both male...gametes (ova). In simultaneous hermaphrodites, both male and female organs...the same time. In sequential hermaphrodites, the individual first develops...
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hermaphrodite
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
hermaphrodite The idea of the hermaphrodite who has fully functioning male...to the behavioural, but a hermaphrodite is usually taken to be an individual...notion of sexual difference. If hermaphrodites did not exist, it would probably...
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hermaphrodite brig
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
hermaphrodite brig, the generic term for those sailing ships which incorporated facets of the fore-and-aft rig into the square rig , principally...
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sequential hermaphrodite
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
sequential hermaphrodite An organism that, during the course of its life, is capable of having both a male phase and a female phase of existence. See also PROTANDRY ; PROTOGYNY .
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Sexual Dimorphism
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
...called gynodioecy, involves females and hermaphrodites (plants which express both male and female components). Hermaphrodites are individuals that produce both male and female sexual parts. Hermaphrodites are very common among plants. Conditions...
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