- not having distinctly masculine or feminine characteristics
- displaying a combination of both masculine and feminine characteristics
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
an•drog•y•nous /ænˈdrɑdʒənəs/USA pronunciation
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Medicinehaving both masculine and feminine characteristics:androgynous plants or animals.
an•drog•y•nous
(an droj′ə nəs),USA pronunciation adj.
an•drog′y•ny, n.
- Medicinebeing both male and female;
hermaphroditic. - Medicinehaving both masculine and feminine characteristics.
- Medicinehaving an ambiguous sexual identity.
- neither clearly masculine nor clearly feminine in appearance:the androgynous look of many rock stars.
- Botanyhaving staminate and pistillate flowers in the same inflorescence.
- androgyne + -ous 1620–30
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androgynous /ænˈdrɒdʒɪnəs/ adj having male and female flowers in the same inflorescence, as cuckoo pint old-fashioned having both male and female reproductive characteristics anˈdrogyny n
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