The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hermaphroditic \Her*maph`ro*dit"ic\, Hermaphroditical \Her*maph`ro*dit"ic*al\, a.
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(Biol.) Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal; characterized by hermaphroditism. Opposite of dioecious. [WordNet sense 1]-- Her*maph`ro*dit"ic*al*ly, adv.
Syn: monoecious, monecious, hermaphrodite.
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Specifically: (Botany) having pistils and stamens in the same flower. Opposite of diclinous. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: monoclinous.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from hermaphrodite + -ic. Earlier form was hermaphroditical (c.1600).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to hermaphrodism; being a hermaphrodite. (from the early 17th c.) 2 (context biology English) Possessing the reproductive organs of both sexes.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to monoclinous plants
of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs [syn: hermaphrodite]
Usage examples of "hermaphroditic".
Because your people have four arms and are striped, and others have goatlike hindquarters, and others are hermaphroditic pastel-colored female shapes with tails, or half cat, or snake, or hairy ape, or so on.
Mendes: the universal agent represented by hermaphroditic goat of, 734-u.
The barnacles were hermaphroditic, and the initial metamorphosis always resulted in female barnacles alone.
The first step in that struggle is to convince the world—and pediatric endocrinologists in particular—that hermaphroditic genitals are not diseased.
Also, besides the manuscripts, I have letters that offer revelations on the connections between Joan of Arc and the Sibylline Books, between Lilith the Talmudic demon and the hermaphroditic Great Mother, between the genetic code and the Martian alphabet, between the secret intelligence of plants, cosmology, psychoanalysis, and Marx and Nietzsche in the perspective of a new angelology, between the Golden Number and the Grand Canyon, Kant and occultism, the Eleusian mysteries and jazz, Cagliostro and atomic energy, homosexuality and gno-sis, the golem and the class struggle.
In medieval alchemy, the hermaphroditic body was a crucial link in the quest for the philosophers' stone.
The girl dancing topless for my benefit, and for that of the gingery, hermaphroditic figure seated two stools to my right, was short and shy and puppyishly built.