Usually means: Organism with both male, female reproductive organs.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word hermaphrodite:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. hermaphrodite: Merriam-Webster
  2. hermaphrodite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hermaphrodite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hermaphrodite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hermaphrodite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hermaphrodite, hermaphrodite: Wordnik
  7. hermaphrodite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hermaphrodite: Wiktionary
  9. hermaphrodite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hermaphrodite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hermaphrodite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hermaphrodite: Dictionary.com
  13. hermaphrodite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hermaphrodite (Nadar), Hermaphrodite (disambiguation), Hermaphrodite, The Hermaphrodite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hermaphrodite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hermaphrodite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hermaphrodite: Rhymezone
  18. Hermaphrodite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hermaphrodite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hermaphrodite: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hermaphrodite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hermaphrodite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Hermaphrodite: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. hermaphrodite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hermaphrodite: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hermaphrodite (mythology), hermaphrodite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hermaphrodite: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. hermaphrodite: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  3. hermaphrodite: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Hermaphrodite: HYPP Zoology
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (dated, now offensive) A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
noun:  (biology) Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
noun:  (biology) Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
noun:  A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
noun:  (nautical) A hermaphrodite brig.
noun:  A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
noun:  (World War I military, historical) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.
adjective:  (dated, now offensive) Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
adjective:  (biology) Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.
adjective:  Combining two opposing qualities.

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