hermaphroditic

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English hermaphrodite Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English hermaphroditic From hermaphrodite + -ic.

1. Of or pertaining to hermaphrodism; being a hermaphrodite.
2. Possessing the reproductive organs of both sexes.
3. Relating to the metaphysical integration of two complementary principles, often framed as masculine and feminine, active and receptive, solar and lunar, force and form, etc.

   “Balanced force is personified by hermaphroditic union of the two principles.”

4. Unisex.

   “At twenty-five she [Clifton Baker] spoke all the most useful living languages and wrote the four most important dead ones. Eight letters (which she never by any chance used) after her hermaphroditic name were some evidence of a scientific grounding […]”