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hermaphroditically

hermaphroditically adverb: in a hermaphroditic manner.

Adverb

hermaphroditically (not comparable)

  1. In a hermaphroditic manner.
    • For nature hates that any principle should breed, so to speak, hermaphroditically, but will give to each an help meet for it which shall cross it and be the undoing of it; as in the case of descent with modification, of which the essence would appear to be that every offspring should resemble its...1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., pages 28–29
    • In normal sexual reproduction, whether performed by separate sexes or hermaphroditically, the two functions are generally combined in a pair.1979, Adriano Zanetti, The World of Insects, Abbeville Press, page 86

Origin of hermaphroditically

From hermaphroditic + -ally.

Questions about hermaphroditically

What does hermaphroditically mean?
Hermaphroditically means in a hermaphroditic manner.
What part of speech is hermaphroditically?
Hermaphroditically is an adverb.

Words near hermaphroditically in the dictionary

  1. hermaphrodite brig
  2. hermaphrodite brigs
  3. hermaphrodites
  4. hermaphroditic
  5. hermaphroditical
  6. hermaphroditically
  7. hermaphroditish
  8. hermaphroditism
  9. hermaphroditisms
  10. hermaphroditize
  11. hermaphroditized

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