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Word: epicene
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- biology androgynous, hermaphrodite ? having both male and female characteristics;
- biology asexual ? having neither male nor female characteristics;
- effeminate ? male with unusually strong female characteristics;
- lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine
- linguistics having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents.
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Noun:
- A hermaphrodite person or other creature
- An effeminate person
- An epicene object
- An epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms.
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