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adjectiveneither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine in appearance: the androgynous look of many rock stars. having an ambiguous sexual identity or having both masculine and feminine gender characteristics. being neither strictly male nor strictly female, often possessing physical sex traits of both. Botany. having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence. Origin of androgynousFirst recorded in 1620–30; androgyne + -ous OTHER WORDS FROM androgynousan·drog·y·ny, nounWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH androgynousandrogenous, androgynous Words nearby androgynousandrogenous, Androgeus, androgyne, androgynism, androgynophore, androgynous, androgyny, android, android pelvis, andrology, Andromache Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for androgynousHaute Butch is one of a number of new design houses targeting the trans, butch, and androgynous dressers. Look Who’s Wearing The Pants: Haute Butch’s Gender-Blending Style|Nina Strochlic|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST The marauding, man-eating Titans are mutated, androgynous beasts that have no need to feed but love to kill. This Author Kills More Darlings Than George R.R. Martin|David Levesley|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Nor has there been a lack of a strange taste in partners, most notably the case of the androgynous Mrs. Simpson and Edward VIII. Imagining Prince Charles as King Makes All of Britain Wish They Could Leave Like Scotland|Clive Irving|September 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST Being “androgynous” can refer to having both masculine and feminine qualities. What Each of Facebook’s 51 New Gender Options Means|Debby Herbenick PhD, Aleta Baldwin|February 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The androgynous Le Smoking suit brought empowerment to women that was once only associated with men. Rad Hourani, The First Unisex Couture Designer|Erin Cunningham|January 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST After these, the androgynous being, called the Venus of Arles, is scarcely worthy of being mentioned. Here devout worshippers believe that the androgynous God of fertility, or Nature, still manifests itself to the faithful. The God-Idea of the Ancients|Eliza Burt Gamble For the androgynous woman despises every approach to coquetry, as she despises all the other insignia of feminine servitude. The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays, Vol. II (of 2)|Eliza Lynn Linton Once before when he bore Sleipner with the giant horse Svadilfare, Loke had revealed his androgynous nature. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3|Viktor Rydberg, Ph.D. 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 Religions|Crawford Howell Toy
British Dictionary definitions for androgynous
adjectivebotany having male and female flowers in the same inflorescence, as cuckoo pint having male and female characteristics; hermaphrodite Derived forms of androgynousandrogyny, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to androgynousbisexual, epicene, hermaphrodite, trans-sexual, unisexual Scientific definitions for androgynous
Having both female and male characteristics. Other words from androgynousandrogyny noun (ăn-drŏj′ə-nē)The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |