hermaphrodite

Etymology
From, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.

Noun

 * 1)   A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
 * 2)   Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
 * 3)   Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
 * 4)  A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
 * 5)   A hermaphrodite brig.
 * 6)  A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
 * 7)  An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.
 * 1)  A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
 * 2)  An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.

Usage notes

 * is now the preferred term for humans. The term hermaphrodite when used for intersex people is now considered a slur.
 * Compare and.
 * Compare and.

Derived terms

 * / herm.
 * / herm.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خُنْثَى
 * Aramaic: אנדרוגינוס
 * Belarusian: гермафрады́т
 * Breton: divreizhadezh
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: hermafrodito, androgino, ambaŭseksulo
 * Estonian: hermafrodiit
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ;, Hermaphroditin;  Zweigeschlecht
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἑρμαφρόδιτος, ἀνδρόγυνος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic: tvíkynjungur
 * Irish: idirghnéas, cadar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 双成り, 雌雄同体
 * Kazakh: қызтеке
 * Khmer:
 * Lao:
 * Lithuanian: hermafroditas
 * Malay: khunsa
 * Navajo: nádleeh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hermafroditt
 * Nynorsk: hermafroditt, tvitole, tvitoling
 * Old English: bǣddel, wǣpenwīfestre, wæpnwifestre
 * Old Ruthenian: гермафродитъ
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, dvopolac, dvopolnik
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: balakihan
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: гермафроди́т
 * Urdu: ہیجڑا
 * Vietnamese: người ái nam ái nữ
 * Volapük: härmafroditan,  hihärmafroditan  jihärmafroditan


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ambivalente,

Adjective

 * 1)  Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
 * 2)  Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.
 * 3) Combining two opposing qualities.

Translations

 * Arabic: خُنْثَوِيّ
 * Bulgarian: хермафродитен
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: tvekønnet, hermafroditisk
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: tvíkynjaður
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: tvítóla, tvítólaður, tvítóli
 * Irish: idirghnéasach
 * Japanese:, 雌雄同体
 * Malay: hermafrodit, khunsa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hermafrodittisk, tvekjønna, tvekjønnet
 * Nynorsk: hermafrodittisk, tvikjønna, tvekjønna, tvitola
 * Polish: hermafrodyczny
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: härmafroditik,  härmafroditanik,  hihärmafroditanik  jihärmafroditanik


 * Polish: hermafrodyczny
 * Portuguese: ambivalente