A hermaphrodite is an organism that possesses both male and female reproductive organs during its life.

Hermaphrodite may also refer to:

Biology

  • Hermaphrodite (botany), an individual plant that has only bisexual reproductive units, or a plant population comprising plants whose flowers have both male and female parts
  • Bovine hermaphrodite, an infertile female cattle with masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries
  • Sequential hermaphrodite, an individual that changes its sex at some point in its life
  • Simultaneous hermaphrodite, an individual that has sex organs of both sexes and can produce both gamete types even in the same breeding season
  • Intersex person, an individual born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals that do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies
    • Pseudohermaphrodite, an organism that is born with primary sex characteristics of one sex but develops the secondary sex characteristics that are different from what would be expected on the basis of the gonadal tissue
    • True hermaphrodite, a medical term for an individual who is born with ovarian and testicular tissue

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