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androgyne

/ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/

androgyne noun: a person who is androgynous.

Noun

androgyne (plural androgynes)

  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.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
  2. An androgynous plant.

androgyne meaning in Tamil

androgyne in Tamil

பெண் அலி, பெண்மையற்ற பெண்

Forms of androgyne

pluralandrogynes

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

  1. androgonous
  2. androgony
  3. andrographolide
  4. andrographolides
  5. androgynal
  6. androgyne
  7. androgyneity
  8. androgynes
  9. androgyni
  10. androgynies
  11. androgynise

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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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