hermaphroditically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a hermaphroditic manner.
Example Sentences
- "For nature hates that any principle should breed, so to speak, hermaphroditically, but will give to each an help meet for it which shall cross it and be the undoing of it; as in the case of descent with modification, of which the essence would appear to be that every offspring should resemble its parents, and yet, at the same time, that no offspring should resemble its parents."
- "In normal sexual reproduction, whether performed by separate sexes or hermaphroditically, the two functions are generally combined in a pair."
- "This cleft sentence in turn cleaves narrative genre: Baré's story, formerly an account of loyal masculine servitude, now proceeds as a feminine sentimental narrative, yet one in which she figures, hermaphroditically, as both distressed female and the masculine hero who rescues her."
Etymology
From hermaphroditic + -ally.