hermafrodite

English

Etymology

Compare Dutch hermafrodiet, Portuguese hermafrodita, and Spanish hermafrodita.

Noun

hermafrodite (plural hermafrodites)

1. (non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of hermaphrodite.
   • 1997 May 18, Renate Meijer, “Who are we ?”, in soc.support.transgendered‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

     To me anyone presenting herself as female, is a female (TS/TV or anything else). Anyone presenting himself as male is a male (idem), anyone presenting him/herself as anything inbetween^[sic] is considered hermafrodite/androgyn.^[sic] It's a question of social role and a litlle^[sic] tact, not genotype and/or fenotype.^[sic] What would you call a XY-woman, an XX-man or a biological hermafrodite (they *do* exist)? A woman who has undergone hysterectomy or a castrated man ?

   • 2000 January 20, Taemon, “Introduction”, in soc.support.transgendered‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

     I have only the one body, in which I feel comfortable, but by rights, I should be a hermafrodite.

   • 2000 January 24, Joao Jose Marques, “GM Rice”, in sci.agriculture‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

     > Did you know that males of C. elegans masturbate?
     Do these little perverts know what they are doing or they are just responding to hormonal stimulus when they become sexually mature? Some C. elegans are hermafrodites and capable of self-fertilization. Perhaps the males don't "know" they are not hermafrodites and are simply trying to fertilize themselves.

   • 2000 August 1, Luis Castillo, “Masturbation & Meditation”, in alt.magick.tantra‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

     But, definetly,^[sic] a man is one force and woman the other one. When they are in the sexual intercouse,^[sic] right in that moment they form, one more time , the primitive hermafrodite, with the power of creation a new life (a baby) and also the power of regenerating themselves through Sexual Magic.

   • 2002 April 1, Rogier Schaaf, “Searching...”, in uk.people.sf-fans‎^[5] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

     Some twenty years ago I read a SF book about 4 people (2 men, 2 women) who were abducted and dropped on another planet. After several adventures they discover that their kidnappers (hermafrodites, with faces that look like the Sphinx) again offer them a new garden of eden. The book made quite an impression on me and I would like to read it again, however I lost the book and also cannot remember the title. The dutch title was (translated in english) "Cosmic Experiment".