androgynous
[an-droj-uh-nuh s]
- being both male and female; hermaphroditic.
- having both masculine and feminine characteristics.
- having an ambiguous sexual identity.
- neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine in appearance: the androgynous look of many rock stars.
- Botany. having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.
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Contemporary Examples
Haute Butch is one of a number of new design houses targeting the trans, butch, and androgynous dressers.
The marauding, man-eating Titans are mutated, androgynous beasts that have no need to feed but love to kill.
Nor has there been a lack of a strange taste in partners, most notably the case of the androgynous Mrs. Simpson and Edward VIII.
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September 17, 2014
There were boyish suits from yesteryear with puffy white sleeves and fur collars worn by androgynous creatures with white faces.
Being “androgynous” can refer to having both masculine and feminine qualities.
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Historical Examples
At times she was also regarded as androgynous, both male and female.
Assyria, Its Princes, Priests and PeopleA. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
They were not merely hermaphroditic, nor androgynous, nor parthenogenetic.
TriplanetaryEdward Elmer Smith
Androgynous deities represent attempts to combine in a single person the two sides of the productive power of nature.
Introduction to the History of ReligionsCrawford Howell Toy
It does not appear that the cult of the Greek androgynous deities entered seriously into the religious life of the people.
Introduction to the History of ReligionsCrawford Howell Toy
Once before when he bore Sleipner with the giant horse Svadilfare, Loke had revealed his androgynous nature.
Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3Viktor Rydberg, Ph.D.
androgynous
- botany having male and female flowers in the same inflorescence, as cuckoo pint
- having male and female characteristics; hermaphrodite
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Word Origin and History for androgynous
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androgynous
[ăn-drŏj′ə-nəs]
- Having both female and male characteristics.
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