Androgyne
//ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who is androgynous.
"Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne."
- 2 one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made wordnet
- 3 An androgynous plant.
Example
More examples"Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne."
Etymology
From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.
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