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Androgyne

noun
1.
One having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made.  Synonyms: epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite, intersex.






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"Androgyne" Quotes from Famous Books



... view of preparing for his master a pleasure more suitable to his taste than that which a play like 'Hamlet,' we suppose, could afford him, brings in the three gamesters:—Nano, a dwarf; Castrone, a eunuch; and Androgyne, a hermaphrodite. [12] The latter is meant to represent Shakspere; for he is introduced by Nano as a soul coming from Apollo, which migrated through Euphorbus and Pythagoras (Meres uses these two names in his eulogy of the soul of Shakspere). [13] After ...
— Shakspere And Montaigne • Jacob Feis



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