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Epicene

noun
1.
One having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made.  Synonyms: androgyne, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite, intersex.
adjective
1.
Having an ambiguous sexual identity.  Synonym: bisexual.
2.
Having unsuitable feminine qualities.  Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish.



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"Epicene" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the water-carriers and the slatternly, statuesque gossips of the place. The remote and noisome canals were pathetic with empty old palaces peopled by herds of poor, that decorated the sculptured balconies with the tatters of epicene linen, and patched the lofty windows with ...
— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells
... the bees With hairy bellies pass between The staminate and pistilate, Blest office of the epicene. ...
— Poems • T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot
... art, who hast not been! Pale tunes irresolute And traceries of old sounds Blown from a rotted flute Mingle with noise of cymbals rouged with rust, Nor not strange forms and epicene Lie bleeding in the dust, ...
— Seven Men • Max Beerbohm


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