hermaphroditic in English

adjective

having both male and female reproductive organs, androgynous

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1. Synonyms: hermaphrodite, bisexual, androgyne, hermaphroditic More Synonyms of Androgynous

2. With a few exceptions, barnacles are the only hermaphroditic members of the class Crustacea in the phylum Arthropoda

3. Pistillate flowers had a lower percentage of embryo-containing (filled) achenes (15.1%) than hermaphroditic florets (27.8%) in plants grown ex situ.

4. Being both male and female; hermaphroditic; having an ambiguous sexual identity Not to be confused with: Androgenous – tending to produce male offspring;

5. While this attachment has become necessary for the male's survival, it will eventually consume him, as both anglerfish fuse into a single hermaphroditic individual.

6. These hermaphroditic, free-living flatworms are usually small in size, with large species reaching up to 5 mm in body length (e.g. Macrostomum tuba).

7. Apomicts seem to have evolved from sexual ancestors independently in several distantly related taxa and can experience advantages, such as reduced or no allocation to male function (in hermaphroditic taxa) and reproductive assurance (sensu ref

8. Annelid: 1 n worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally Synonyms: Annelid worm , segmented worm Types: show 10 types hide 10 types archiAnnelid small primitive marine worm lacking external segmentation and resembling polychaete larvae oligochaete , oligochaete worm hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic

9. Ctenophore: 1 n biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb Synonyms: comb jelly Types: show 4 types hide 4 types beroe delicately iridescent thimble-shaped Ctenophores platyctenean Ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened

10. The Ambiguousness invoked by Anderson in his use of the word "hermaphroditic" is likely a nineteenth-century interpretation rather than a Greek or Roman construction, perhaps suggesting that the fusion of masculine and feminine in Hindu/Javanese mythology is more similar to that of the Greek Hermaphroditus than Anderson implies.

11. Montgomery works at Oceanside Wellness Centre, a cooperative medical clinic in Los Angeles, where private lives and medical cases collide on a regular basis. In the second season of Private Practice, financial ruin looms over the team as they grapple with such hot-button cultural issues as abortion, teen pregnancy, vaccination, and the right to die, as well as more esoteric issues like accidental incest and a hermaphroditic baby.