androgyne
/ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.45 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is androgynous.
noun
An androgynous plant.
Example Sentences
- "Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne."
- "The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved."
- "There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology."
Etymology
From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: androgyne, androgynus