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androgynous

/an-droj-uh-nuhs/US // ænˈdrɒdʒ ə nəs //UK // (ænˈdrɒdʒɪnəs) //

雌雄同体,雌雄同体的,雌雄同体的人,男女有别

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine in appearance: the androgynous look of many rock stars.
    • : having an ambiguous sexual identity or having both masculine and feminine gender characteristics.
    • : being neither strictly male nor strictly female, often possessing physical sex traits of both.
    • : Botany. having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.

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Examples

  • Choosing clothes and a style of presentation that is androgynous or mixed, they can be misgendered all the time.

  • Consider the controversy over Daybreak Ranger, a seemingly androgynous character.

  • Haute Butch is one of a number of new design houses targeting the trans, butch, and androgynous dressers.

  • The marauding, man-eating Titans are mutated, androgynous beasts that have no need to feed but love to kill.

  • Nor has there been a lack of a strange taste in partners, most notably the case of the androgynous Mrs. Simpson and Edward VIII.

  • There were boyish suits from yesteryear with puffy white sleeves and fur collars worn by androgynous creatures with white faces.

  • These flowers are still regarded as more or less sacred, and they are called feminine, although really androgynous.

  • For the androgynous woman despises every approach to coquetry, as she despises all the other insignia of feminine servitude.

  • The notion of man being at first androgynous, or man-woman, was prevalent in most of the countries of antiquity.

  • It escaped him as it has escaped later biologists that Man, the highest of the vertebrates, is still androgynous.

  • But to accomplish this work, which we may also call diabolic, isn't an androgynous genius necessary?