androgyne

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

And just as our fathers are spoken of as keeping herds of oxen, or goats, or sheep, or brood mares, so now they keep boys, solely for the purpose of shameful usage, treating them as females, or androgynes, and doing unspeakable acts. — The Satyricon — Complete, Petronius Arbiter

hermaphrodite, intersex, gynandromorph, epicene, epicene person

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