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Androgyne   Listen
noun
Androgyne  n.  
1.
An hermaphrodite.
2.
(Bot.) An androgynous plant.





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"Androgyne" Quotes from Famous Books



... view of preparing for his master a pleasure more suitable to his taste than that which a play like 'Hamlet,' we suppose, could afford him, brings in the three gamesters:—Nano, a dwarf; Castrone, a eunuch; and Androgyne, a hermaphrodite. [12] The latter is meant to represent Shakspere; for he is introduced by Nano as a soul coming from Apollo, which migrated through Euphorbus and Pythagoras (Meres uses these two names in his eulogy of the soul of Shakspere). [13] After ...
— Shakspere And Montaigne • Jacob Feis


Words linked to "Androgyne" :   epicene, androgynous, bisexual person, hermaphrodite, epicene person


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