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- Hermaphrodite - n. - An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.
- Hermaphrodite - a. - Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower.
- Ovotesttis - n. - An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.
- Pulmonata - n. pl. - An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis.
- Gonochorism - n. - In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.
- Dimorphism - n. - Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.
- Uterus - n. - A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.
- Hercogamous - a. - Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.
- Hermaphrodite - a. - Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower.
- Gynodioecious - a. - Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
- Polygamia - n. pl. - A Linnaean class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.