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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Androgynous \An*drog"y*nous\, Androgynal \An*drog"y*nal\, a. [L. androgynus Gr ?; 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + gynh` woman: cf F. androgyne.] 1. Uniting both sexes in one or having the characteristics of both being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. --Owen. The truth is a great mind must be androgynous. --Coleridge. 2. (Bot.) Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: androgynous adj : having both male and female characteristics [ant: {male}, {female}]
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