hermaphrodite

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.

   An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.

2. 2
   noun

   Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.

   Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.

3. 3
   adj

   of animal or plant

4. 4
   noun

   one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs

From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.

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