(noun.) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made.
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双语例句
But still there are many hermaphrodite animals which certainly do not habitually pair, and a vast majority of plants are hermaphrodites. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Of aquatic animals, there are many self-fertilising hermaphrodites; but here the currents of water offer an obvious means for an occasional cross. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Turning for a brief space to animals: various terrestrial species are hermaphrodites, such as the land-mollusca and earth-worms; but these all pair. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
But still there are many hermaphrodite animals which certainly do not habitually pair, and a vast majority of plants are hermaphrodites. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.