epicene : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: epicene	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
epicene adj having an ambiguous sexual identity [syn: bisexual, epicene] having unsuitable feminine qualities Synonym(s): effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy n one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made Synonym(s): hermaphrodite, intersex, gynandromorph, androgyne, epicene, epicene person
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Epicene \Ep"icene\, a. & n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. [?]; fr. 'epi` + [?] common; cf. F. [82]pic[8a]ne.] 1. Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites. 2. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. The literary prigs epicene. --Prof. Wilson. He represented an epicene* species, neither churchman nor layman. --J. A. Symonds.