androgynismn.

1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 560 The lovesick boy, the emblem of androgynism, sinks, from exhaustion, into languor.

1873 Amer. Bee Jrnl. Mar. 198/2 According to Pringsheim, every queen would have to be hermaphrodite; but in the..drone-producing queens, which were repeatedly examined by the above observers, no trace of androgynism or of spermatozoa could be found.

1918 E. Lind Autobiogr. Androgyne 2 The object of the book is to delineate the phenomena of androgynism, passive sexual inversion, and psychical infantilism.

1998 J. D. Brody Impossible Purities iii. 123 Androgynism presents a problem for any culture that benefits from creating and maintaining rigid gender distinctions.

2002 B. Jakim tr. S. N. Bulgakov Bride of Lamb 441 The very appearance of gender is due to the fall and the loss of the original androgynism.

1869 M. T. Masters Veg. Teratol. 193 Change from the diœcious to the monœcious condition.—Androgynism.

1879 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 5 p. cxxiii The plant..grows on an apple tree, and is the sole instance of such androgynism on that tree, which, however, bears several other Mistleto plants.

1976 G. H. Fechner & J. S. Barrows Aspen Stands as Wildfire Fuel Breaks 6 Schlenker (1953) prepared the following classification of aspen trees, with respect to their sex..: (1) pure females; (2) predominantly female, slight androgynism; (3) pure males; (4) predominantly male, slight androgynism; (5) strongly developed androgynism.