epicene
- Adjective. lacking gender distinction, often specifically due to lack of either the masculine or the feminine.
- Adjective. effeminate (gloss, male with unusually strong female characteristics) .
- Adjective. (biology) androgynous, hermaphrodite (gloss, having both male and female characteristics) .
- Adjective. (biology) asexual (gloss, having neither male nor female characteristics) .
- Adjective. (linguistics) having only one form of the word, which serves as both masculine and feminine, even for either male or female referents.
- Noun. A hermaphrodite person or other creature.
- Noun. An effeminate person.
- Noun. An epicene word, without separate grammatical gender forms.
- Noun. An epicene object.
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