androgyne
/ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/
androgyne noun: a person who is androgynous.
Noun
androgyne (plural androgynes)
- 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.1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
- The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33
- An androgynous plant.
androgyne meaning in Tamil
androgyne in Tamil
- பெண் அலி, பெண்மையற்ற பெண்
Forms of androgyne
| plural | androgynes |
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Origin of androgyne
From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.
Words formed from androgyne
Questions about androgyne
- What does androgyne mean?
- Androgyne means a person who is androgynous.
- What is androgyne in Tamil?
- Androgyne in Tamil is பெண் அலி, பெண்மையற்ற பெண். See Androgyne meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is androgyne?
- Androgyne is a noun.
- How do you pronounce androgyne?
- Androgyne is pronounced /ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/.
- What is the plural of androgyne?
- The plural of androgyne is androgynes.
Words near androgyne in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: androgyne (page history and authors); androgyne (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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