Ep'i·cēne, a. or n.

a. or n. [Gr. ἐπίκοινος, from ἐπί, and κοινός, common; Lat. epicænus, Fr. épicène.] Common to both sexes;—a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as βούς, bos, for the ox and cow. Not the male generation of critics, not the literary prigs epicene, not of decided sex the blues celestial. Prof. Wilson.