hermaphroditize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hermaphrodite +‎ -ize

Verb[edit]

hermaphroditize (third-person singular simple present hermaphroditizes, present participle hermaphroditizing, simple past and past participle hermaphroditized)

  1. (transitive) To make hermaphrodite.
    • 1972, John Money, Anke A. Ehrhardt, Man & Woman, Boy & Girl: The Differentiation and Dimorphism of Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity, page 58:
      Some of them are known to masculinize or hermaphroditize the external genitalia of the female.
    • 1997, Tom Winnifrith, Critical Essays on Emily Brontë, page 259:
      Male Romantic poets hermaphroditize themselves "to seize the Delphic powers of feminine receptivity," but a female artist in this tradition, "sexually advantaged by birth, must extend her imperial reach in the other direction, []