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Insult. Supposedly refers to 'manliness' of woman, i.e. she is a quasi-hermaphrodite with a penis sticking out of her vagina. Probably began from some callow youths lack of anatomical knowledge when sighting a sexually excited clitoris.
A human being with both male and female sexual organs, though one set is unually underdeveloped. The term come's form the Greek Myth, Hermaphroditos, son of Hermes and Aphrodite united in a single body with a nymph. Hermes, a god who was messenger of the other gods.
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Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
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Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
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Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
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Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower.
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Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
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A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.
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Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to dioecious.
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An hermaphrodite.
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A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.
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Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.
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Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.
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An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis.
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In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.
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Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di/cious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di/cious.
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An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.
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An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.
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A Linnaean class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
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Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.
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Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.
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An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.
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