epicene

7 letters · noun · scores 1,800 in SpellHuntr

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 an ambiguous sexual identity

Epicene in a sentence

In many names of animals, the same word with the same gender is used for both sexes: ἡ ἁλὠπηξ the fox, male or female. These are said to be epicoene.

There is a kind of aesthetic masturbation here akin to Elmer's love of impregnable, virginal epicene women.

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