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hermaphrodite

1. Biology an individual animal or flower that has both male and female reproductive organs
2. a person having both male and female sexual characteristics and genital tissues
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What does it mean when you dream about a hermaphrodite?

Dreaming about having characteristics of both sexes can show, on the one hand, a balance between our masculine and feminine character traits. On the other hand, it could reflect confusion about our sexual identity.

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hermaphrodite

[hər′maf·rə‚dīt]
(biology)
An individual animal or plant exhibiting hermaphroditism.
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Furthermore, records of the Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), Mountain Weasel (Mustela altaica), Hyaena (Hyaena hyaena) and Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) from Chandragiri, Shey Phoksundo National Park, Dang and Rara National Park, respectively, were new to our national distribution records.
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
En bref, se degage ici peu ou prou la necessaire dualite degagee plus haut a la lecture des regles juridiques romaines qui prescrivent que l' hermaphroditus doit etre obligatoirement rattache a l'un ou l'autre sexe et qui sous-tendent qu'il doit tenir le role qui lui a ete ainsi devolu.
Finally, Charlotte Ribeyrol's "'L'Hermaphroditus' d'Algernon Charles Swinburne, entre raythe et science" (Etudes Anglaises 64, no.
D.28.2.6.2 Hermaphroditus plane, si in eo virilia praevalebunt, postumum heredem instituere poterit.
"'Listening With' Ovid: Intersexuality, Queer Theory, and the Myth of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis." Helios 36: 175-202.
(37) She invokes Salmacis's speech to Hermaphroditus in the Metamorphoses: Or if thou be a mortal wight, right happy folk are they by whom thou camst into this world.
Two species of palm civet are commonly found in Sri Lanka: the common palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, which is widespread in southern Asia and Southeast Asia, and the golden palm civet, P.
15:+; Oxalis micrantha 16:+; Lantana scabiosiflora 17:1; Tournefortia microcalyx 17:1; Verbena litoralis 18:1; Cyperus hermaphroditus 18:1; Carica candicans 18:2; Jaltomata umbellata 19:+; Hepaticae div.
As the enamoured couple sit together in an embracement with curiously entangled legs (her raised ankle flattening his calf, the bridge of her other foot spanned by the arch of his) they almost twine into the hermaphrodite Mabuse delineated in two stages, in the tiny panel at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen at Rotterdam, of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (c.1517).
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