hermaphrodite
US/hɝˈmæfɹədaɪt/
hermaphrodite noun: a person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
Noun
hermaphrodite (plural hermaphrodites)
- A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
- Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
- An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.
- Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
- Comb jellies are sequential hermaphrodites.
- A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
- A hermaphrodite brig.
- A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
- An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.
Adjective
hermaphrodite (not comparable)
hermaphrodite meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
hermaphrodite in Hindi
- organism having both male and female gonads; person not prototypically male or female
- हिजड़ा hijṛā
hermaphrodite in Tamil
- அலி, அழிதூ, இருபாலான, இருபால், இருபால் உயிரி, இருபால் உயிரினம்
hermaphrodite in Urdu
- organism having both male and female gonads; person not prototypically male or female
- ہیجڑا hijṛa
hermaphrodite in Telugu
- a hermaphrodite, a eunuch, an impotent man
- పేడి pēḍi
More languagesFewer languages
- hermaphrodite in Malayalam
- ഉഭയലിംഗി, ദ്വിലിംഗജീവി, സ്ത്രീപുരുഷലക്ഷണങ്ങളുള്ള ആളോ വസ്തുവോ, പോട
- hermaphrodite in Kannada
- ಉಭಯಲಿಂಗಿ, ಉಭಯಗುಣಿ, ಉಭಯ ಸ್ವರೂಪಿ, ಪರಸ್ಪರ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಗುಣಗಳುಳ್ಳ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿವಸ್ತು
- hermaphrodite in Tagalog
- balakihan
- hermaphrodite in Arabic
- خُنْثَى ḵunṯā, خُنْثَوِيّ ḵunṯawiyy
- hermaphrodite in Malay
- khunsa, hermafrodit
- hermaphrodite in Persian
- نرماده narmāde
- hermaphrodite in Thai
- แต๋ว dtɛ̌o
- hermaphrodite in Vietnamese
- người ái nam ái nữ
- hermaphrodite in Myanmar
- ဒွိလိင် dwi.ling
Synonyms of hermaphrodite
- maphrodite
- morphodite
- mophrodite
- androgyne
- gynandromorph
- dichogamous
- cosexual
- intersex
- androgynous
- hermaphroditic
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Forms of hermaphrodite
| plural | hermaphrodites |
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Origin of hermaphrodite
From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.
Words formed from hermaphrodite
Phrases with hermaphrodite
Questions about hermaphrodite
- What does hermaphrodite mean?
- Hermaphrodite means a person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
- What is hermaphrodite in Hindi?
- Hermaphrodite in Hindi is हिजड़ा (hijṛā). See Hermaphrodite meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hermaphrodite?
- Hermaphrodite can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce hermaphrodite?
- Hermaphrodite is pronounced /hɝˈmæfɹədaɪt/ (US).
- What is the plural of hermaphrodite?
- The plural of hermaphrodite is hermaphrodites.
Words near hermaphrodite in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hermaphrodite (page history and authors); hermaphrodite (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పేడి (Telugu) (page history and authors); hermaphrodite (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hermaphrodite (Kannada 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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