pseudohermaphrodite

American

[soo-doh-hur-maf-ruh-dahyt] / ˌsu doʊ hɜrˈmæf rəˌdaɪt /

noun

Older Use: Offensive. a person who has the reproductive organs associated with one sex, and other sexual characteristics associated with a different sex.

pseudohermaphrodite British

/ ˌsjuːdəʊhɜːˈmæfrəˌdaɪt /

noun

an organism with the congenital condition of having the organs of reproduction of one sex and the external genitalia, usually malformed, of the opposite sex Compare hermaphroditism

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Origin of pseudohermaphrodite

First recorded in 1890–95; pseudo- + hermaphrodite

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pseudohermaphrodite

He is not a pseudohermaphrodite, with the organs of his own sex so unusually formed that they are mistaken for those of the other.

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