BioConcepts

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)
  category sex see also 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)
  category 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).