Definition of hermaphrodite in English:

hermaphrodite

noun həːˈmafrədʌɪthərˈmæfrədaɪt

1A person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.
阴阳人，两性体
Example sentencesExamples
- In two lines, XX transgenic mice developed as females, and in three lines XX transgenic mice developed as females, hermaphrodites, or males.
- The rates of births for which sex was uncertain, or of births diagnosed as hermaphrodites, were studied for 4-year periods from 1967 to 1998.
- Nudibranchs are hermaphrodites - with both male and female sexual equipment - and they meet in groups, attracted by pheromones.
- A third possibility is that the Belle Isle bamboo shark is a hermaphrodite, harboring both male and female sex organs, and capable of fertilizing its own eggs.
- However, even in hermaphrodites, male and female meiosis may not occur at the same time - and therefore may occur under different conditions.
- When males were present in the brood, hermaphrodites were separated from males during the final larval stage to preserve their virginity.
- There is thus a dynamic interaction between the processes of sex allocation and other sexually selected strategies in animal hermaphrodites.
- In Hayes' study, African clawed frog tadpoles exposed to levels of atrazine commonly found in the environment were demasculinized and turned into hermaphrodites - creatures with both male and female genitalia.
- Single-sex groups of males, but not hermaphrodites, were observed to congregate into clumps of animals attempting to mate with one another.
- Because earthworms are hermaphrodites, no sexual differences were taken into account during the experiments.
- In simultaneous hermaphrodites, both male and female roles are present in the same individual.
- The Hippocratic paradigm assumed that sex existed along a sort of continuum from the extreme male to the extreme female and that the hermaphrodite therefore was s/he who lay in the middle.
- The barramundi is also a hermaphrodite, born male but switching to female at sexual maturity, at around five years old, when they begin travelling downstream to spawn.
- A small number of eunuchs are hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female characteristics, or transvestites.
- The widely used herbicide atrazine can convert male frogs into hermaphrodites.
- The idea of the hermaphrodite who has fully functioning male and female organs and is capable of self-fertilization is a myth, though a very persistent one, which has long exercised a fascination over the human mind.
- It also shows favorable features for vulva genetics: self-fertilizing hermaphrodites with facultative males and a fast life cycle.
- Perhaps most interesting is Dieta Sixt, a self-described hermaphrodite who investigated her female side, then her male side, and has finally settled somewhere in the middle.
- Snails are hermaphrodites (male & female) and can have 200 eggs.
- This nematode reproduces primarily by self-fertilization of adult hermaphrodites, although males can develop under special conditions.
Synonyms
androgyne
Biology bisexual, gynandromorph
1. 1.1Botany A plant having stamens and pistils in the same flower.
  〔植〕雌雄同株
  Example sentencesExamples
  Gynodioecy, the coexistence of hermaphrodite and female (male sterile) individuals in natural populations, is relatively frequent in angiosperm species.
  Most flowering plant species are hermaphrodite and possess flowers in which male and female reproductive organs are in close proximity.
  In plants we find that under low resourced conditions, poor resourced conditions, the plants flower as males, and then under better conditions they flower as hermaphrodites and express female function.
  In all but two plants examined, this flower matured as a hermaphrodite; in the exceptions, the carpel aborted, producing a male flower.
  In this population, the male cyathia produced on average 100 pollen grains more per stamen than the hermaphrodites, but this difference was not significant.
2. 1.2archaic A person or thing combining opposite qualities or characteristics.
  〈古〉具有相反两种性质的人（或物）

adjective həːˈmafrədʌɪthərˈmæfrədaɪt

Of or denoting a person, animal, or plant having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics.
hermaphrodite creatures in classical sculpture
古典雕塑中的两性体。
Example sentencesExamples
- A long tail on the survival curve, representing a small minority of long-lived survivors, was seen in male but not hermaphrodite populations.
- All individuals were selected from sibships that had both female and hermaphrodite progeny, so all individuals carried a fertility cytoplasm that is susceptible to restoration.
- This situation never happens for nuclear genes because at least half of the nuclear genes carried by females necessarily derive from hermaphrodite parents.
- The painting presents a heavily pregnant two-tone, two-headed, hermaphrodite figure in x-ray on a background of what also appears to be a row of x-rayed teeth.
- Most Pampas grass plants are either male or female, though odd plants may be hermaphrodite.
- SELF-incompatibility is a genetic mechanism used by hermaphrodite plants to prevent self-fertilization and to promote outbreeding.
- However, seeds from hermaphrodite trees always segregate into hermaphrodites and females at the ratio of 2: 1 and the sex types of the plants can be determined only by inspection of the flowers.
- We observed complete interference for both oogenesis and spermatogenesis in hermaphrodite animals and for the entire lengths of both an autosome and the X chromosome.
- However, when pollinators were excluded from the flowers at night but not in the day, there was no effect on fruit set in female plants and even a slight increase in hermaphrodite plants.
- Each plant was marked at the beginning of the flowering and visited every 7-10 days, noting the number of male and hermaphrodite cyathia at each level of the inflorescence.
- One female and one hermaphrodite plant that did not produce any fruit were excluded from the analyses.
- Now, a new study provides the first experimental evidence that some hermaphrodite animals also benefit from promoting maleness when faced with troublesome conditions.
- Earlier this year another team of scientists reported the creation of a hermaphrodite embryo containing male and female cells.
- Twenty female and 20 hermaphrodite plants were chosen randomly in each population.
- Wild beets are gynodioecious: both female and hermaphrodite individuals coexist frequently within natural populations.
- This allowed construction of a male / hermaphrodite strain.
- Poor old Kyle and Chardonnay have had nothing much to do this series, except provide a stream of public service information about hermaphrodite babies.
- Such individuals are able to reproduce, and most adult hermaphrodite bears are actually females that successfully raise cubs.
- Animals developed as perfectly normal hermaphrodites if derived from a heterozygous hermaphrodite mother.
- A second approach to looking for imprinting in C. elegans has been to generate diploid animals in which both copies of a given chromosome are derived from the same parent, from either the male parent or hermaphrodite parent.
Synonyms
hermaphroditic, epicene
Biology bisexual, monoclinous, gynandrous, gynandromorphic

Derivatives

hermaphroditic

adjective həːmafrəˈdɪtɪkhərˌmæfrəˈdɪdɪk

As a politically aware intersexual, I felt it was my duty to be as brazenly androgynous, as visibly hermaphroditic as possible.
Example sentencesExamples
- Proglottids are complete reproductive systems that allow the hermaphroditic tapeworm to reproduce.
- The hermaphroditic snails will fire calcified ‘love darts’ at each other in order to mate.
- They are like weird hermaphroditic parrotfish, changing sex at will.
- Divination was historically not gender specific but frequently androgynous, as the hermaphroditic figure of Tiresias exemplifies.

hermaphroditical

adjectivehəːmafrəˈdɪtɪk(ə)l

The flowers of Zamioculcas are morphologically hermaphroditical, but physiologically unisexual.
Example sentencesExamples
- Then all living creatures, including man, which had been hermaphroditical, were separated, the males being set apart by themselves and the females likewise, according to the dictates of Reason.
- The situation is better than it has been years ago but some fish species do not bear it very well - for instance, in Tichá Orlice the scientists found hermaphroditical trout.
- So the genetic information that determines a snail shell's coiling direction can not be found in the snail's own cells, but in those of the mother animal - in the case of the hermaphroditical land snails the snail the egg cell was from.
- There was a period of transition of age in the last century in which Maia, a kind of hermaphroditical elf native from a Latin small village, used to guide his followers to the entrance of Magnanapoli Street, close to Ulpia restaurant.

hermaphroditism

noun həːˈmafrəˌdʌɪatɪz(ə)mhərˌmæfrəˈdaɪdɪzəm

In evolutionary terms, hermaphroditism is thus twice as efficient a reproductive strategy as sex.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is largely because doctors avoid using the terms hermaphroditism or intersexuality around intersexuals and their parents.
- She started as a historian of science, working on the history of medical treatment of hermaphroditism (now called intersex).
- Davis claims that hermaphroditism in polar bears and alligators shows that PCBs and various man-made ‘environmental estrogens’ account for reduced human sperm counts and may threaten the future of the human race.
- Sequential hermaphroditism (functioning as male during one life phase and as female during another) is common in marine fishes, with protogyny (sex change from female to male) predominating.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek hermaphroditos (see Hermaphroditus).

Definition of hermaphrodite in US English:

hermaphrodite

nounhərˈmafrədīthərˈmæfrədaɪt

1A person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.
阴阳人，两性体
Example sentencesExamples
- Perhaps most interesting is Dieta Sixt, a self-described hermaphrodite who investigated her female side, then her male side, and has finally settled somewhere in the middle.
- The widely used herbicide atrazine can convert male frogs into hermaphrodites.
- However, even in hermaphrodites, male and female meiosis may not occur at the same time - and therefore may occur under different conditions.
- The idea of the hermaphrodite who has fully functioning male and female organs and is capable of self-fertilization is a myth, though a very persistent one, which has long exercised a fascination over the human mind.
- There is thus a dynamic interaction between the processes of sex allocation and other sexually selected strategies in animal hermaphrodites.
- The barramundi is also a hermaphrodite, born male but switching to female at sexual maturity, at around five years old, when they begin travelling downstream to spawn.
- A small number of eunuchs are hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female characteristics, or transvestites.
- In simultaneous hermaphrodites, both male and female roles are present in the same individual.
- Nudibranchs are hermaphrodites - with both male and female sexual equipment - and they meet in groups, attracted by pheromones.
- The Hippocratic paradigm assumed that sex existed along a sort of continuum from the extreme male to the extreme female and that the hermaphrodite therefore was s/he who lay in the middle.
- A third possibility is that the Belle Isle bamboo shark is a hermaphrodite, harboring both male and female sex organs, and capable of fertilizing its own eggs.
- The rates of births for which sex was uncertain, or of births diagnosed as hermaphrodites, were studied for 4-year periods from 1967 to 1998.
- When males were present in the brood, hermaphrodites were separated from males during the final larval stage to preserve their virginity.
- It also shows favorable features for vulva genetics: self-fertilizing hermaphrodites with facultative males and a fast life cycle.
- Single-sex groups of males, but not hermaphrodites, were observed to congregate into clumps of animals attempting to mate with one another.
- Snails are hermaphrodites (male & female) and can have 200 eggs.
- Because earthworms are hermaphrodites, no sexual differences were taken into account during the experiments.
- In Hayes' study, African clawed frog tadpoles exposed to levels of atrazine commonly found in the environment were demasculinized and turned into hermaphrodites - creatures with both male and female genitalia.
- This nematode reproduces primarily by self-fertilization of adult hermaphrodites, although males can develop under special conditions.
- In two lines, XX transgenic mice developed as females, and in three lines XX transgenic mice developed as females, hermaphrodites, or males.
Synonyms
androgyne
1. 1.1Botany A plant having stamens and pistils in the same flower.
  〔植〕雌雄同株
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most flowering plant species are hermaphrodite and possess flowers in which male and female reproductive organs are in close proximity.
  In this population, the male cyathia produced on average 100 pollen grains more per stamen than the hermaphrodites, but this difference was not significant.
  In plants we find that under low resourced conditions, poor resourced conditions, the plants flower as males, and then under better conditions they flower as hermaphrodites and express female function.
  Gynodioecy, the coexistence of hermaphrodite and female (male sterile) individuals in natural populations, is relatively frequent in angiosperm species.
  In all but two plants examined, this flower matured as a hermaphrodite; in the exceptions, the carpel aborted, producing a male flower.
2. 1.2archaic A person or thing combining opposite qualities or characteristics.
  〈古〉具有相反两种性质的人（或物）

adjectivehərˈmafrədīthərˈmæfrədaɪt

Of or denoting a person, animal, or plant having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics.
hermaphrodite creatures in classical sculpture
古典雕塑中的两性体。
Example sentencesExamples
- A second approach to looking for imprinting in C. elegans has been to generate diploid animals in which both copies of a given chromosome are derived from the same parent, from either the male parent or hermaphrodite parent.
- This situation never happens for nuclear genes because at least half of the nuclear genes carried by females necessarily derive from hermaphrodite parents.
- Poor old Kyle and Chardonnay have had nothing much to do this series, except provide a stream of public service information about hermaphrodite babies.
- This allowed construction of a male / hermaphrodite strain.
- Earlier this year another team of scientists reported the creation of a hermaphrodite embryo containing male and female cells.
- SELF-incompatibility is a genetic mechanism used by hermaphrodite plants to prevent self-fertilization and to promote outbreeding.
- We observed complete interference for both oogenesis and spermatogenesis in hermaphrodite animals and for the entire lengths of both an autosome and the X chromosome.
- A long tail on the survival curve, representing a small minority of long-lived survivors, was seen in male but not hermaphrodite populations.
- One female and one hermaphrodite plant that did not produce any fruit were excluded from the analyses.
- Most Pampas grass plants are either male or female, though odd plants may be hermaphrodite.
- Such individuals are able to reproduce, and most adult hermaphrodite bears are actually females that successfully raise cubs.
- Now, a new study provides the first experimental evidence that some hermaphrodite animals also benefit from promoting maleness when faced with troublesome conditions.
- Wild beets are gynodioecious: both female and hermaphrodite individuals coexist frequently within natural populations.
- However, when pollinators were excluded from the flowers at night but not in the day, there was no effect on fruit set in female plants and even a slight increase in hermaphrodite plants.
- Each plant was marked at the beginning of the flowering and visited every 7-10 days, noting the number of male and hermaphrodite cyathia at each level of the inflorescence.
- All individuals were selected from sibships that had both female and hermaphrodite progeny, so all individuals carried a fertility cytoplasm that is susceptible to restoration.
- Animals developed as perfectly normal hermaphrodites if derived from a heterozygous hermaphrodite mother.
- The painting presents a heavily pregnant two-tone, two-headed, hermaphrodite figure in x-ray on a background of what also appears to be a row of x-rayed teeth.
- However, seeds from hermaphrodite trees always segregate into hermaphrodites and females at the ratio of 2: 1 and the sex types of the plants can be determined only by inspection of the flowers.
- Twenty female and 20 hermaphrodite plants were chosen randomly in each population.
Synonyms
hermaphroditic, epicene

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek hermaphroditos (see Hermaphroditus).

单词	hermaphrodite
释义	Definition of hermaphrodite in English: hermaphrodite noun həːˈmafrədʌɪthərˈmæfrədaɪt 1A person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition. 阴阳人，两性体 Example sentencesExamples In two lines, XX transgenic mice developed as females, and in three lines XX transgenic mice developed as females, hermaphrodites, or males. The rates of births for which sex was uncertain, or of births diagnosed as hermaphrodites, were studied for 4-year periods from 1967 to 1998. Nudibranchs are hermaphrodites - with both male and female sexual equipment - and they meet in groups, attracted by pheromones. A third possibility is that the Belle Isle bamboo shark is a hermaphrodite, harboring both male and female sex organs, and capable of fertilizing its own eggs. However, even in hermaphrodites, male and female meiosis may not occur at the same time - and therefore may occur under different conditions. When males were present in the brood, hermaphrodites were separated from males during the final larval stage to preserve their virginity. There is thus a dynamic interaction between the processes of sex allocation and other sexually selected strategies in animal hermaphrodites. In Hayes' study, African clawed frog tadpoles exposed to levels of atrazine commonly found in the environment were demasculinized and turned into hermaphrodites - creatures with both male and female genitalia. Single-sex groups of males, but not hermaphrodites, were observed to congregate into clumps of animals attempting to mate with one another. Because earthworms are hermaphrodites, no sexual differences were taken into account during the experiments. In simultaneous hermaphrodites, both male and female roles are present in the same individual. The Hippocratic paradigm assumed that sex existed along a sort of continuum from the extreme male to the extreme female and that the hermaphrodite therefore was s/he who lay in the middle. The barramundi is also a hermaphrodite, born male but switching to female at sexual maturity, at around five years old, when they begin travelling downstream to spawn. A small number of eunuchs are hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female characteristics, or transvestites. The widely used herbicide atrazine can convert male frogs into hermaphrodites. The idea of the hermaphrodite who has fully functioning male and female organs and is capable of self-fertilization is a myth, though a very persistent one, which has long exercised a fascination over the human mind. It also shows favorable features for vulva genetics: self-fertilizing hermaphrodites with facultative males and a fast life cycle. Perhaps most interesting is Dieta Sixt, a self-described hermaphrodite who investigated her female side, then her male side, and has finally settled somewhere in the middle. Snails are hermaphrodites (male & female) and can have 200 eggs. This nematode reproduces primarily by self-fertilization of adult hermaphrodites, although males can develop under special conditions. Synonyms androgyne Biology bisexual, gynandromorph 1.1Botany A plant having stamens and pistils in the same flower. 〔植〕雌雄同株 Example sentencesExamples Gynodioecy, the coexistence of hermaphrodite and female (male sterile) individuals in natural populations, is relatively frequent in angiosperm species. Most flowering plant species are hermaphrodite and possess flowers in which male and female reproductive organs are in close proximity. In plants we find that under low resourced conditions, poor resourced conditions, the plants flower as males, and then under better conditions they flower as hermaphrodites and express female function. In all but two plants examined, this flower matured as a hermaphrodite; in the exceptions, the carpel aborted, producing a male flower. In this population, the male cyathia produced on average 100 pollen grains more per stamen than the hermaphrodites, but this difference was not significant. 1.2archaic A person or thing combining opposite qualities or characteristics. 〈古〉具有相反两种性质的人（或物） adjective həːˈmafrədʌɪthərˈmæfrədaɪt Of or denoting a person, animal, or plant having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics. hermaphrodite creatures in classical sculpture 古典雕塑中的两性体。 Example sentencesExamples A long tail on the survival curve, representing a small minority of long-lived survivors, was seen in male but not hermaphrodite populations. All individuals were selected from sibships that had both female and hermaphrodite progeny, so all individuals carried a fertility cytoplasm that is susceptible to restoration. This situation never happens for nuclear genes because at least half of the nuclear genes carried by females necessarily derive from hermaphrodite parents. The painting presents a heavily pregnant two-tone, two-headed, hermaphrodite figure in x-ray on a background of what also appears to be a row of x-rayed teeth. Most Pampas grass plants are either male or female, though odd plants may be hermaphrodite. SELF-incompatibility is a genetic mechanism used by hermaphrodite plants to prevent self-fertilization and to promote outbreeding. However, seeds from hermaphrodite trees always segregate into hermaphrodites and females at the ratio of 2: 1 and the sex types of the plants can be determined only by inspection of the flowers. We observed complete interference for both oogenesis and spermatogenesis in hermaphrodite animals and for the entire lengths of both an autosome and the X chromosome. However, when pollinators were excluded from the flowers at night but not in the day, there was no effect on fruit set in female plants and even a slight increase in hermaphrodite plants. Each plant was marked at the beginning of the flowering and visited every 7-10 days, noting the number of male and hermaphrodite cyathia at each level of the inflorescence. One female and one hermaphrodite plant that did not produce any fruit were excluded from the analyses. Now, a new study provides the first experimental evidence that some hermaphrodite animals also benefit from promoting maleness when faced with troublesome conditions. Earlier this year another team of scientists reported the creation of a hermaphrodite embryo containing male and female cells. Twenty female and 20 hermaphrodite plants were chosen randomly in each population. Wild beets are gynodioecious: both female and hermaphrodite individuals coexist frequently within natural populations. This allowed construction of a male / hermaphrodite strain. Poor old Kyle and Chardonnay have had nothing much to do this series, except provide a stream of public service information about hermaphrodite babies. Such individuals are able to reproduce, and most adult hermaphrodite bears are actually females that successfully raise cubs. Animals developed as perfectly normal hermaphrodites if derived from a heterozygous hermaphrodite mother. A second approach to looking for imprinting in C. elegans has been to generate diploid animals in which both copies of a given chromosome are derived from the same parent, from either the male parent or hermaphrodite parent. Synonyms hermaphroditic, epicene Biology bisexual, monoclinous, gynandrous, gynandromorphic Derivatives hermaphroditic adjective həːmafrəˈdɪtɪkhərˌmæfrəˈdɪdɪk As a politically aware intersexual, I felt it was my duty to be as brazenly androgynous, as visibly hermaphroditic as possible. Example sentencesExamples Proglottids are complete reproductive systems that allow the hermaphroditic tapeworm to reproduce. The hermaphroditic snails will fire calcified ‘love darts’ at each other in order to mate. They are like weird hermaphroditic parrotfish, changing sex at will. Divination was historically not gender specific but frequently androgynous, as the hermaphroditic figure of Tiresias exemplifies. hermaphroditical adjectivehəːmafrəˈdɪtɪk(ə)l The flowers of Zamioculcas are morphologically hermaphroditical, but physiologically unisexual. Example sentencesExamples Then all living creatures, including man, which had been hermaphroditical, were separated, the males being set apart by themselves and the females likewise, according to the dictates of Reason. The situation is better than it has been years ago but some fish species do not bear it very well - for instance, in Tichá Orlice the scientists found hermaphroditical trout. So the genetic information that determines a snail shell's coiling direction can not be found in the snail's own cells, but in those of the mother animal - in the case of the hermaphroditical land snails the snail the egg cell was from. There was a period of transition of age in the last century in which Maia, a kind of hermaphroditical elf native from a Latin small village, used to guide his followers to the entrance of Magnanapoli Street, close to Ulpia restaurant. hermaphroditism noun həːˈmafrəˌdʌɪatɪz(ə)mhərˌmæfrəˈdaɪdɪzəm In evolutionary terms, hermaphroditism is thus twice as efficient a reproductive strategy as sex. Example sentencesExamples This is largely because doctors avoid using the terms hermaphroditism or intersexuality around intersexuals and their parents. She started as a historian of science, working on the history of medical treatment of hermaphroditism (now called intersex). Davis claims that hermaphroditism in polar bears and alligators shows that PCBs and various man-made ‘environmental estrogens’ account for reduced human sperm counts and may threaten the future of the human race. Sequential hermaphroditism (functioning as male during one life phase and as female during another) is common in marine fishes, with protogyny (sex change from female to male) predominating. Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek hermaphroditos (see Hermaphroditus). Definition of hermaphrodite in US English: hermaphrodite nounhərˈmafrədīthərˈmæfrədaɪt 1A person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition. 阴阳人，两性体 Example sentencesExamples Perhaps most interesting is Dieta Sixt, a self-described hermaphrodite who investigated her female side, then her male side, and has finally settled somewhere in the middle. The widely used herbicide atrazine can convert male frogs into hermaphrodites. However, even in hermaphrodites, male and female meiosis may not occur at the same time - and therefore may occur under different conditions. The idea of the hermaphrodite who has fully functioning male and female organs and is capable of self-fertilization is a myth, though a very persistent one, which has long exercised a fascination over the human mind. There is thus a dynamic interaction between the processes of sex allocation and other sexually selected strategies in animal hermaphrodites. The barramundi is also a hermaphrodite, born male but switching to female at sexual maturity, at around five years old, when they begin travelling downstream to spawn. A small number of eunuchs are hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female characteristics, or transvestites. In simultaneous hermaphrodites, both male and female roles are present in the same individual. Nudibranchs are hermaphrodites - with both male and female sexual equipment - and they meet in groups, attracted by pheromones. The Hippocratic paradigm assumed that sex existed along a sort of continuum from the extreme male to the extreme female and that the hermaphrodite therefore was s/he who lay in the middle. A third possibility is that the Belle Isle bamboo shark is a hermaphrodite, harboring both male and female sex organs, and capable of fertilizing its own eggs. The rates of births for which sex was uncertain, or of births diagnosed as hermaphrodites, were studied for 4-year periods from 1967 to 1998. When males were present in the brood, hermaphrodites were separated from males during the final larval stage to preserve their virginity. It also shows favorable features for vulva genetics: self-fertilizing hermaphrodites with facultative males and a fast life cycle. Single-sex groups of males, but not hermaphrodites, were observed to congregate into clumps of animals attempting to mate with one another. Snails are hermaphrodites (male & female) and can have 200 eggs. Because earthworms are hermaphrodites, no sexual differences were taken into account during the experiments. In Hayes' study, African clawed frog tadpoles exposed to levels of atrazine commonly found in the environment were demasculinized and turned into hermaphrodites - creatures with both male and female genitalia. This nematode reproduces primarily by self-fertilization of adult hermaphrodites, although males can develop under special conditions. In two lines, XX transgenic mice developed as females, and in three lines XX transgenic mice developed as females, hermaphrodites, or males. Synonyms androgyne 1.1Botany A plant having stamens and pistils in the same flower. 〔植〕雌雄同株 Example sentencesExamples Most flowering plant species are hermaphrodite and possess flowers in which male and female reproductive organs are in close proximity. In this population, the male cyathia produced on average 100 pollen grains more per stamen than the hermaphrodites, but this difference was not significant. In plants we find that under low resourced conditions, poor resourced conditions, the plants flower as males, and then under better conditions they flower as hermaphrodites and express female function. Gynodioecy, the coexistence of hermaphrodite and female (male sterile) individuals in natural populations, is relatively frequent in angiosperm species. In all but two plants examined, this flower matured as a hermaphrodite; in the exceptions, the carpel aborted, producing a male flower. 1.2archaic A person or thing combining opposite qualities or characteristics. 〈古〉具有相反两种性质的人（或物） adjectivehərˈmafrədīthərˈmæfrədaɪt Of or denoting a person, animal, or plant having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics. hermaphrodite creatures in classical sculpture 古典雕塑中的两性体。 Example sentencesExamples A second approach to looking for imprinting in C. elegans has been to generate diploid animals in which both copies of a given chromosome are derived from the same parent, from either the male parent or hermaphrodite parent. This situation never happens for nuclear genes because at least half of the nuclear genes carried by females necessarily derive from hermaphrodite parents. Poor old Kyle and Chardonnay have had nothing much to do this series, except provide a stream of public service information about hermaphrodite babies. This allowed construction of a male / hermaphrodite strain. Earlier this year another team of scientists reported the creation of a hermaphrodite embryo containing male and female cells. SELF-incompatibility is a genetic mechanism used by hermaphrodite plants to prevent self-fertilization and to promote outbreeding. We observed complete interference for both oogenesis and spermatogenesis in hermaphrodite animals and for the entire lengths of both an autosome and the X chromosome. A long tail on the survival curve, representing a small minority of long-lived survivors, was seen in male but not hermaphrodite populations. One female and one hermaphrodite plant that did not produce any fruit were excluded from the analyses. Most Pampas grass plants are either male or female, though odd plants may be hermaphrodite. Such individuals are able to reproduce, and most adult hermaphrodite bears are actually females that successfully raise cubs. Now, a new study provides the first experimental evidence that some hermaphrodite animals also benefit from promoting maleness when faced with troublesome conditions. Wild beets are gynodioecious: both female and hermaphrodite individuals coexist frequently within natural populations. However, when pollinators were excluded from the flowers at night but not in the day, there was no effect on fruit set in female plants and even a slight increase in hermaphrodite plants. Each plant was marked at the beginning of the flowering and visited every 7-10 days, noting the number of male and hermaphrodite cyathia at each level of the inflorescence. All individuals were selected from sibships that had both female and hermaphrodite progeny, so all individuals carried a fertility cytoplasm that is susceptible to restoration. Animals developed as perfectly normal hermaphrodites if derived from a heterozygous hermaphrodite mother. The painting presents a heavily pregnant two-tone, two-headed, hermaphrodite figure in x-ray on a background of what also appears to be a row of x-rayed teeth. However, seeds from hermaphrodite trees always segregate into hermaphrodites and females at the ratio of 2: 1 and the sex types of the plants can be determined only by inspection of the flowers. Twenty female and 20 hermaphrodite plants were chosen randomly in each population. Synonyms hermaphroditic, epicene Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek hermaphroditos (see Hermaphroditus).
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