androgyne

[ an-druh-jahyn ]

/ ˈæn drəˌdʒaɪn /

an androgynous plant.

an androgynous person, as one who chooses unisex clothing.

a female pseudohermaphrodite.

a being of ambiguous sexual identity; one that combines major aspects of both the male and the female.

Origin of androgyne

1545–55; < Middle French < Latin androgynus < Greek andrógynos hermaphrodite, equivalent to andro- andro- + gyn- gyn- + -os masculine noun suffix

Figures 51 to 60 are varions representations of the union of the four, the arba, the androgyne, or the linga-yoni.

Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism |Thomas Inman
With such an androgyne element the sun was associated by ancient mythologists.

The God-Idea of the Ancients |Eliza Burt Gamble
This androgyne, in many respects, resembled the mujerados of the Pueblo Indians, and probably served a like purpose in his tribe.

Religion and Lust |James Weir
Where these two streams fused the worship of an androgyne, or man-woman god, is said to have resulted.

Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria |Lewis Spence

These are representations of Ashtaroth—the androgyne deity in which the female predominates.

Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism |Thomas Inman

androgyne

/ (ˈændrəˌdʒaɪn) /

another word for hermaphrodite

C17: from Old French, via Latin from Greek androgunos, from anēr man + gunē woman