gynandrous, a. Bot.
(dʒaɪ-, dʒɪˈnændrəs, g-)
[f. Gr. γύνανδρ-ος (recorded in the sense ‘of doubtful sex’) + -ous: cf. gyno- and -androus.]
Applied to those flowers and plants in which the stamens and pistil are united in one column, as in orchids; said also of the stamens.
| 1807 J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 462 The rest of the Order are in no sense gynandrous. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 189 [Stylidieæ.] Nearly allied both to Campanulaceæ and Goodenoviæ, from both of which they are distinguished by their gynandrous stamens. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora p. xvii, Aristolochieæ..Stamens 6–12, epigynous or gynandrous. 1897 Willis Flower. Pl. I. 77 The stamens may be epipetalous or gynandrous. |
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Restrict Bot. to sense in Dict. and add: 2. Of people or animals: having characteristics of both sexes; hermaphroditic. Cf. androgynous a.
| 1930 Surg. Clinics N. Amer. X. 1326 We..declare this child to be a girl... She is a pseudohermaphrodite of the gynandrous type. 1934 Webster 1119/2 Gynandrous,..2. Characterized by gynandry. Gynandry,..the condition of a female approximating to the male type of physique. 1968 ‘J. Wyndham’ Chocky iv. 60, I wondered what complex we were on the brink of now, and tried to recall the name of some suitably gynandrous Greek, but it eluded me. 1989 Washington Post 11 Mar. a21/4 ‘Androgynous’ means having characteristics of both sexes, while the never-heard word ‘gynandrous’ means being of indeterminate or ambiguous sex. |