Definitions
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- adjective having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex
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Examples
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Studies show that male fish in detergent-contaminated water express female characteristics, turtles are sex-reversed by PCBs, male frogs exposed to a common herbicide form multiple ovaries, pseudohermaphroditic offspring are produced by polar bears, and seals in contaminated water have an excess of uterine fibroids.
Dan Agin: Plastic Bottles, Poison, and Endocrine Disruptors 2008
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