Example Sentences

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"Before studying hermaphrodites, the first question was what females do."

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024

I remember learning about hermaphrodites in animals in junior high school.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023

Barnacles are stationary crustaceans and hermaphrodites, yet all but one species—the gooseneck barnacle—require sexual intercourse to reproduce.

From National Geographic • Sep. 16, 2017

Beardsley’s transvestites and hermaphrodites are still marvellous to look at, but the pleasure is considerably amplified when one notices his witty references to Botticelli, Dürer, even Holbein the Younger.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2016

Some mutant hermaphrodites lost their self-incompatibility and became able to fertilize themselves—a process exemplified by many fruit trees such as plums, peaches, apples, apricots, and cherries.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond