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hermaphrodite

How to use hermaphrodite in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for hermaphrodite.

Editorial note

You know bisexual isn't the same thing as a hermaphrodite right?

Examples17
Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hermaphrodite gathered in one view.

noun

one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

adjective

of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hermaphrodite.

noun

one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

adjective

of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs

Example sentences

1

You know bisexual isn't the same thing as a hermaphrodite right?

2

This breaks down in hermaphrodite creatures and creatures who change sex.

3

Or maybe 1 girl and one hermaphrodite. 100% was the right answer.

4

It's a hermaphrodite, with a fully-sequenced DNA. It's also one of the more studied organisms out there.

5

Sexes are male and female, and to be fair, hermaphrodite should be a third option. Gender can be any random combination of man and woman.

6

If you eat papaya, you're already eating hermaphrodite fruit. This can't make much difference.

7

What does it mean for a hermaphrodite to be gay? Only attracted to other hermaphrodites?

8

That way you could get an individual that is homosexual, bisexual, hermaphrodite, etc...

9

If you're worried about your family finding out that you had an affair or were secretly a hermaphrodite or cross-dresser or into some real kinky shit, why would it matter to you? You're dead.

10

Whether or not I'm a gay hermaphrodite, I was responding to a post about advice to young people, and saying what I wish I knew as a young person was relevant. In my case, this would have been to ignore pretentious fuckwads who say how difficult life is.

11

There is a fixed developmental pattern, with exactly 959 cells in the adult hermaphrodite. Also, the connectivity map of the entire nervous system is known.

12

In particular it is very confused about genitalia, it tends towards hermaphrodite.

13

Possibly from Old English derogatory term bddel and its diminutive bdling "effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast"

14

In the article: Papayas already come in three sexual varieties: male, female and hermaphrodite, but it is only the hermaphrodite varieties that produce the succulent fruit that is sold commercially.

15

Combinatorial search and optimization problems are in the heartland of CS. The simplex method straddles numerical optimization and combinatorial optimization and is a bit of a hermaphrodite. Low-dimensional LPs are important in computational geometry and that field has produced some beautiful algorithms.

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“ While there are reports of individuals that seemed to have the potential to produce both types of gamete,[173] in more recent years the term hermaphrodite as applied to humans has fallen out of favor, since female and male reproductive functions have not been observed together in the same individual.”

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If you followed the citation you would have found the book the quote came from where it lists examples: >> The existence of a third sex or gender enables us to understand how Byzantine palace eunuchs and Indian hijras met the criteria of special social roles that necessitated practices such as self-castration, and how intimate and forbidden desires were expressed among the Dutch Sodomites in the early modern period, the Sapphists of eighteenth-century England, or the so-called hermaphrodite-homosexuals of nineteenth-century Europe and America. The book I am assuming cites even more historical examples in different ancient and modern societies of non conforming binary roles in society.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hermaphrodite in a sentence?

You know bisexual isn't the same thing as a hermaphrodite right?

What does hermaphrodite mean?

one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

What part of speech is hermaphrodite?

hermaphrodite is commonly used as noun, adjective.