Hermaphrodite

(māf'ro-dīt), n. [Fr. hermaphrodite, Lat. hermaphroditus, Gr. ἑρμαφρόδιτος, so called from Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes, or Mercury, and Aphrodite, or Venus, who, when bathing, grew together with Salmacis, the nymph of a fountain in Caria, into one person.]

1. An animal or human being having the parts of generation both of male and female.
2. (Bot.) A flower that contains both the stamen and the pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. Martyn.