androgyne

Etymology

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

noun

  1. A person who is androgynous.
    Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne. 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33
  2. An androgynous plant.

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