Hermaphrodite vs. Intersex

Hermaphroditenoun

An individual or organism possessing ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.

Hermaphroditenoun

A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.

Hermaphroditenoun

(nautical) A hermaphrodite brig.

Hermaphroditenoun

A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.

Hermaphroditeadjective

Having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.

Hermaphroditeadjective

Combining two opposing qualities.

Hermaphroditenoun

An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.

Hermaphroditeadjective

Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower.

Hermaphroditenoun

one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

Hermaphroditeadjective

of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs

Hermaphroditenoun

a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.

Hermaphroditenoun

a plant having stamens and pistils in the same flower.

Hermaphroditenoun

a person or thing combining opposite qualities or characteristics.

Hermaphroditeadjective

of or denoting a person, animal, or plant having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics

Hermaphrodite

In reproductive biology, a hermaphrodite () is an organism that has both kinds of reproductive organs and can produce both gametes associated with male and female sexes. Many taxonomic groups of animals (mostly invertebrates) do not have separate sexes.

Intersexnoun

Any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a dioecious species) whereby an individual has sex characteristics which differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, the state of having physical features relating to both male and female sexes; intersexuality.

Intersexnoun

An individual with any of these conditions.

Intersexadjective

(of an individual) Having an intersex condition.

Intersexverb

(nonstandard) To make intersex.

Intersexnoun

one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

Intersex

Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, . Though the range of atypical sex characteristics may be obvious from birth through the presence of physically ambiguous genitalia, in other instances, atypical characteristics may go unnoticed, presenting as ambiguous internal reproductive organs or atypical chromosomes that may remain unknown to an individual all of their life.Sex assignment at birth usually aligns with a child's anatomical sex and phenotype.