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Nov 30, 2009
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an•drog•y•nous



Pronunciation: (an-droj'u-nus), [key]
—adj.
1. being both male and female; hermaphroditic.
2. having both masculine and feminine characteristics.
3. having an ambiguous sexual identity.
4. neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine in appearance: the androgynous look of many rock stars.
5. Bot.having staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.

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