hermaphrodite

1. 1.

   one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

   Synonymsintersexgynandromorphandrogyneepiceneepicene person

   Broaderbisexual

1. 1.

   of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs

   Synonymshermaphroditic

   Similarandrogynous

   biology

Other forms of hermaphrodite

plural

hermaphrodites·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hermaphrodite

What does hermaphrodite mean?

hermaphrodite means "one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hermaphrodite?

hermaphrodite has 4 syllables: her-maph-ro-dite. The stress falls on "maph". In IPA it is /hɚˈmæfɹəˌdaɪt/.

What is another word for hermaphrodite?

Close synonyms include intersex, gynandromorph, androgyne, epicene, epicene person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hermaphrodite a common word?

hermaphrodite is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hermaphrodite?

8 words rhyme with hermaphrodite. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.