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gynandroid

gynandroid adjective: seeming to have both male and female attributes.

Adjective

gynandroid (not comparable)

  1. Seeming to have both male and female attributes.
    • Gynandroid males have in addition to the male set of external genitalia, one or more reproductive appendages resembling a short ovipositor sheath or even a sting.(Can we date this quote?), Pamphlets on Biology
    • If, in respect to a certain gene or gene complex X, the diploid female parent was heterozygous, for example Xᵃ Xᵇ, then the gynandroid mosaics were haploid Xᵃ in one part of their body and haploid Xᵇ in the other.1968, Curt Stern, Genetic Mosaics and Other Essays, Harvard University Press, page 38

Noun

gynandroid (plural gynandroids)

  1. Synonym of pseudohermaphrodite.
    • The regular gynandroid has ovaries proved to be so histologically, with external organs of the male type, the urethra running in the clitoris (as in lemurs), a well-marked perineal raphe, and no vulva.1911, British Medical Journal, page 694
    • Auvray (Revue de gynéc. et de chir. abd., April, 1912) writes about a gynandroid or pseudo-hermaphrodite woman aged 72, who died of intestinal obstruction after refusing surgical aid.1912, Pacific Medical Journal, page 429

Examples of gynandroid in a sentence

  • Pozzi has recently described an example which he removed from a pseudohermaphrodite (a gynandroid) aged thirty.1913, Surgery, page 125:
  • Unfortunately there were no genetic markers in the parents producing these gynandroids.1988, Daniel S. Grosch, “Genetics Research on Braconid Wasps”, in E. W. Caspari, John G. Scandalios, editors, Advances in Genetics, volume...

Synonyms of gynandroid

Forms of gynandroid

pluralgynandroids

Origin of gynandroid

From gyn- + andr- + -oid.

Questions about gynandroid

What does gynandroid mean?
Gynandroid means seeming to have both male and female attributes.
How do you use gynandroid in a sentence?
Pozzi has recently described an example which he removed from a pseudohermaphrodite (a gynandroid) aged thirty.
What part of speech is gynandroid?
Gynandroid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near gynandroid in the dictionary

  1. gynandrism
  2. gynandrium
  3. gynandroblastoma
  4. gynandroblastomas
  5. gynandroblastomata
  6. gynandroid
  7. gynandroids
  8. gynandromorph
  9. gynandromorphic
  10. gynandromorphism
  11. gynandromorphisms

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