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单词 androgynous
释义 an·drog·y·nous
I. \(ˈ)an|dräjənəs\ adjective
Etymology: androgyne + -ous
1. : having the characteristics of both sexes : being at once both male and female : hermaphroditic
2. archaic : sometimes hot and sometimes cold — used of planets
3.
 a. : bearing both staminate and pistillate flowers in the same cluster with the male flowers uppermost — compare gynaecandrous
 b. of fungi : bearing both antheridium and oogonium on the same hypha
II. adjective
1.
 a. : neither specifically feminine or masculine
  < the androgynous pronoun them >
  < the themes cross the sexual divide to the darkest place of our androgynous soul — Anne Roiphe >
 b. : suitable to or for either sex
  < an androgynous school of clothing design — Angelo d'Arcangelo >
  < the best fiction is androgynous: designed by a writer … for a reader of either sex — Doris Grumbach >
2. : having traditional male and female roles obscured or reversed
 < the possibility of a new androgynous way of life — Gerda Lerner >
an·drog·y·nous·ly \-lē, -li\ adverb
an·drog·y·nous·ness \-nə̇s\ noun
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