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androg

androg is the abbreviation of androgynous.

Meaning of androgynous

Adjective

androgynous (comparative more androgynous, superlative most androgynous)

  1. Possessing the sex organs of both sexes.
  2. Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.
    • Nicknames like Pat, Sam, and Chris are androgynous, used by both men and women.
  3. Possessing qualities of both sexes.
    • The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous.1832 September 1, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Great Minds Androgynous—Philosopher’s Ordinary Language”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor...
  4. Of a connector or docking port, able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting to solely male or solely female connectors or ports.
    • APAS is an androgynous docking system, so – in principle, at least – any APAS-equipped vehicle should be able to hook up with any other, without having to worry about matching male with female ports.

Synonyms of androg

Origin of androg

So as to preserve part of both gendered prefixes andro- + gyno-.

Questions about androg

What is androg the abbreviation of?
Androg is the abbreviation of androgynous.

Words near androg in the dictionary

  1. androecia
  2. androecial
  3. androecious
  4. androecium
  5. androecy
  6. androg
  7. androgen
  8. androgen insensitivity syndrome
  9. androgenemia
  10. androgenemic
  11. androgeneses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: androg (page history and authors); androgynous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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