gynandroid

English

Etymology

From gyn- +‎ andr- +‎ -oid.

Adjective

gynandroid (not comparable)

1. Seeming to have both male and female attributes.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Pamphlets on Biology:

     Gynandroid males have in addition to the male set of external genitalia, one or more reproductive appendages resembling a short ovipositor sheath or even a sting.

   • 1968, Curt Stern, Genetic Mosaics and Other Essays, Harvard University Press, page 38:

     If, in respect to a certain gene or gene complex X, the diploid female parent was heterozygous, for example X^a X^b, then the gynandroid mosaics were haploid X^a in one part of their body and haploid X^b in the other.

   • 2009, Richard Cleminson, Francisco Vázquez García, Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850–1960, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN, pages 144 and 187:

     The three cases referred to by the authors were all of the gynandroid type in whom testicles in different stages of atrophy were found. […] Such a discovery obliged the doctors to reverse their diagnosis – instead they had a case of a ‘pseudohermafrodita ginandroide’ (gynandroid pseudo-hermaphrodite) or a ‘niña pseudohermafrodita’ (pseudo-hermaphrodite girl).

Noun

gynandroid (plural gynandroids)

1. Synonym of pseudohermaphrodite
   • 1911, British Medical Journal, page 694:

     The regular gynandroid has ovaries proved to be so histologically, with external organs of the male type, the urethra running in the clitoris (as in lemurs), a well-marked perineal raphe, and no vulva.

   • 1912, Pacific Medical Journal, page 429:

     Auvray (Revue de gynéc. et de chir. abd., April, 1912) writes about a gynandroid or pseudo-hermaphrodite woman aged 72, who died of intestinal obstruction after refusing surgical aid.

   • 1913, Surgery, page 125:

     Pozzi has recently described an example which he removed from a pseudohermaphrodite (a gynandroid) aged thirty.

   • 1988, Daniel S. Grosch, “Genetics Research on Braconid Wasps”, in E. W. Caspari, John G. Scandalios, editors, Advances in Genetics, volume 25, Academic Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 114:

     Unfortunately there were no genetic markers in the parents producing these gynandroids.

Coordinate terms

• androgynoid