adjective. Having characteristics of both sexes.

adjective. Having characteristics traditionally ascribed to the other sex, especially as a male who is considered to be effeminate.

adjective. Having no characteristics of either sex.

adjective. Having only one form for both the male and the female.

noun. One that is epicene.

noun. An epicene word.

Belonging to or including both sexes: especially, in grammar, applied to nouns having only one form of gender to indicate animals of both sexes: thus, the Greek ο%35ϊς and Latin ovis, a sheep, are feminine words, whether applied to males or to females.

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.

Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

adjective. lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine

adjective. effeminate (male with unusually strong female characteristics)

adjective. androgynous, hermaphrodite (having both male and female characteristics)

adjective. asexual (having neither male nor female characteristics)

adjective. having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents

noun. A hermaphrodite person or other creature

noun. An effeminate person

noun. An epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms.

noun. An epicene object

adjective. having an ambiguous sexual identity

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

adjective. having unsuitable feminine qualities

"His face was as much feminine as masculine, of that kind called epicene, and Carmine doubted that the double-sexed look would vanish as he grew older."

common  

androgynous  unmanful  unmanlike  unmanly  

bisexual  bisexual person  

blue-striped  buff-colored  dominatrix  dropsical  eggshell  

androgynous  asexual  camp  effeminate  hermaphrodite