epicene

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

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