ANDROGYNOUS

adj.?j/in-u3s. Lat.. androgynus (from avépéyvves, common to both men and women). Fr., androgyne- Ger., androgynisch. It., androgino. Sp., andrégino. 1 lermaphrodite. (C.] 2. Adapted to the use of both sexes. [. 322.] 3. In botany, having the male and female organs on the sam yee and either on the same flower (hermaphrodite) or on different lowers (moncecious); ina flower, having the anthers coming to maturity before the stigmas. [B, 1, 48.] Cf. Gynanprovus. 4. In zoology, hermaphrodite (restricted, however, by some to those hermaphrodite animals which, although each individual is of both sexes, can not be impregnated without copulation, the leech being an example). [B, 38.)