单词 | hermaphroditic |
释义 | hermaphroditicadj. a. Belonging to or of the nature of a hermaphrodite (literal and figurative); combining male and female characteristics. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > having characteristics of both sexes bisexed1605 hermaphroditical1605 epicene1607 hermaphrodite1607 hermaphroditic1631 promiscuousa1637 androgynal1646 masculo-feminine1646 androgynous1651 ambosexous1656 hermaphroditish1764 androgyne1765 bisexual1793 hermaphrodital1823 heautandrous1837 amphigonic1876 intersexual1916 intersex1920 intersexed1921 harumphroditic1924 man-womanly1929 ambosexual1931 bi-gendered1976 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. i. 5 in Wks. II Looke on me, and with all thine eyes, Male, Female, yea, Hermaphroditicke eyes. 1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 264 If the flowers of these plants be hermaphroditic. 1862 Intellectual Observer No. 1. 31 Nearly all the flukes are hermaphroditic. b. In a more general sense: Combining any two opposite attributes or qualities. ΚΠ 1881 A. C. Swinburne Misc. (1886) 222 The detestable as well as debateable land of pseudo-poetic rhapsody in hermaphroditic prose. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1631 |
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