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hermaphroditeZwitter (ger.)

  • 1) A human being, or one of the higher animals, in which parts characteristic of both sexes are to some extent (really or apparently) combined. (OED 2011)
    sex intersex
    13th cent.

    Zwitter

    Anonymus (13th cent.). In: Steinmeyer, E. & Sievers, E. (eds.) (1898). Althochdeutsche Glossen, vol. 4: 70, 29.

    77 AD

    Gignuntur et utriusque sexus quos Hermaphroditos vocamus, olim androgynos vocatos et in prodigiis habitos

    Plinius (77). Naturalis historia: Lib. VII, Cap. 3 (34).

  • 2) A plant or flower in which the stamens and pistils (or equivalent organs) are present in the same flower, as in the majority of flowering plants. (OED 2011)
    sex
    1718
    Flores hermaphroditi
    Vaillant, S. (1718). Sermo de structura florum: 26f.; cf. Wagenitz, G. (1996). Wörterbuch der Botanik: 409.
    1735

    Flores [...] qui Antheres habent, Masculini, qui Stigmata, Feminini, qui utraque simul, Hermaphroditi dicuntur. Planta quæ Floribus [...] Hermaphroditis, Hermaphrodita [...] dicitur

    Linné, C. von (1735). Systema naturæ sive regna tria naturæ systematice proposita per classes, ordines, genera, & species: [Observatione in Regnum Vegetabile].

    1759
    Diejenigen Pflanzen also, deren Blumen diese beyderley Geburts-Glieder haben, nennet man Hermaphroditen oder Zwitter. Sie machen den größten Theil aus
    Erhart, B. (1759). Oeconomische Pflanzenhistorie, Bd. 7: 86 (§43).