Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organism having both male and female characteristics, especially an insect exhibiting a mixture of male and female tissues or sex organs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, an animal of a unisexual species but exhibiting the anomaly of having part of the body male and part female. Gynandromorphs are most frequently found among insects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An animal affected with gynandromorphism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
insect orcrustacean literally havingphysical characteristics of bothgenders , usually displaying a bilateral difference. - noun A person having certain
physical characteristics of bothgenders .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
Etymologies
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Examples
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Around one in ten thousand butterflies is a gynandromorph.
Half male, half female butterfly steals the show at Natural History Museum 2011
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Blanca Huertas, curator of butterflies at the museum, said: The gynandromorph butterfly is a fascinating scientific phenomenon, and is the product of complex evolutionary processes.
Half male, half female butterfly steals the show at Natural History Museum 2011
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My earliest recollection, when I was about four years old, was being sent out into the garden by my father to try and catch a very rare butterfly, a gynandromorph orange tip, that is one which is half male and half female and which, therefore, only has the orange tip on one wing.
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One gynandromorph was named Sam, for Samantha on the right and Samuel on the left.
Scientific American 2010
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Such an abnormality is called a bilateral gynandromorph.
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Also, captured on video for the first time -- gynandromorph.
Dubious Quality 2009
reesetee commented on the word gynandromorph
"Bob Motz has seen lots of amazing wildlife in a lifetime of observing nature--giant tortoises on the Galapagos Islands, millions of monarch butterflies in the mountains of Mexico and lions in Tanzania, Africa.
"But he experienced a 'first' last month, right outside the windows of his Rock Island home: a cardinal that is half-male, half-female, he says. The bird’s male side is bright red and the female side is a buff brown." -- "Unusual cardinal visits Rock Island yard," Quad-City Times, 1/7/09
January 19, 2009
oroboros commented on the word gynandromorph
NPR story
March 12, 2010
reesetee commented on the word gynandromorph
Fascinating, isn't it? (P.S. I think I fixed the broken link in my previous comment.)
March 17, 2010
oroboros commented on the word gynandromorph
Yep, looks like it rt. You be a wizzard o' odds, me thinks. Thanks.
March 19, 2010