gynander
(dʒaɪˈnændə(r), g-)
[ad. Gr. γύνανδρος (see gynandrous).]
1. A woman with male characteristics. rare—1.
| 1888 Scribner's Mag. May 631/2 An emasculated type, product of short-haired women and long-haired men, gynanders and androgynes. |
2. A plant of the class Gynandria.
| 1828–32 Webster, Gynander, in botany, a plant whose stamens are inserted in the pistil. |
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Add: 3. Ent. A gynandromorphous insect.
| 1939 Sinnott & Dunn Princ. Genetics (ed. 3) xi. 266 Occasionally two types of tissue, male and female, may coexist in the same individual, each type developing according to its own genetic constitution, resulting in a sexual mosaic or gynander. 1945 E. Altenburg Genetics vi. 125 In a gynander the line of division between male and female tissue need not necessarily be through the middle of the body. 1965 F. A. E. Crew Sex-Determination (ed. 4) iii. 43 The gynander can be ambisexual in respect of gonadic structure. 1986 Nature 30 Oct. 759/1 Because each antenna develops from its own disk, gynanders can be readily constructed by replacing female disks with male ones at the late larval stage. |