ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hermaphroditically

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Hermaphroditically is an adverb meaning In a hermaphroditic manner.

Meaning

In a hermaphroditic manner.

Example Sentences

In normal sexual reproduction, whether performed by separate sexes or hermaphroditically, the two functions are generally combined in a pair.
This cleft sentence in turn cleaves narrative genre: Baré's story, formerly an account of loyal masculine servitude, now proceeds as a feminine sentimental narrative, yet one in which she figures, hermaphroditically, as both distressed female and the masculine hero who rescues her.
For nature hates that any principle should breed, so to speak, hermaphroditically, but will give to each an help meet for it which shall cross it and be the undoing of it; as in the case of descent with modification, of which the essence would appear to be that every offspring should resemble its parents, and yet, at the same time, that no offspring should resemble its parents.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heteroeciously, homogamically, heterogenitally, homothallically, polygynously, unisexually.

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