— hermaphroditic /herr maf'reuh dit"ik/ , hermaphroditical, hermaphroditish /herr maf'reuh duy"tish/ , adj. — hermaphroditically , adv.
/herr maf"reuh duyt'/ , n.
1. an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Cf. pseudohermaphrodite .
2. Biol. an organism, as an earthworm or plant, having normally both the male and female organs of generation.
3. a person or thing in which two opposite qualities are combined.
adj.
4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a hermaphrodite.
5. combining two opposite qualities.
6. Bot. monoclinous.
[ 1350-1400; ME hermofrodite hermaphroditus hermaphróditos hemaphrodite, name of the son of Hermes and Aphrodite ]