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Hermaphroditical   Listen
adjective
Hermaphroditical, Hermaphroditic  adj.  
1.
(Biol.) Partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal; characterized by hermaphroditism. Opposite of dioecious.
Synonyms: monoecious, monecious, hermaphrodite.
2.
Specifically: (Botany) Having pistils and stamens in the same flower. Opposite of diclinous.
Synonyms: monoclinous.





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... their metallurgic terms were sexual processes. Their "prima materia" was called by the name of many of the secretions or excretions of the body. A whole school—the Seminalists—adhered to the view that the great original substance was semen. Other thought it was hermaphroditic. Paraceleus spoke of the birth of monsters as a result of sodomy. A natural history[4] written three centuries ago tells of semen being carried by wind. Notoriously there was no limit either to the absurdity or crudity of these ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10


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