How to Use hermaphrodite in a Sentence

hermaphrodite

noun

• The hermaphrodites, which produce both eggs and sperm at once, are the true solo act of the worm world.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• Snails are hermaphrodites, but their genitals need to align for mating to occur.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• The authors of the study settle the question and show that the ancestral flower was a hermaphrodite.
  — Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• The pond snail is a hermaphrodite that can choose the role of giver or taker in a relationship.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• The pond snail is a hermaphrodite that can choose the role of giver or taker in a relationship.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
• To be honest, the fact that Kaine is a hermaphrodite was never meant to be a salacious detail that would be talked about on message boards the world over.
  — John Mix Meyer, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2010
• The pièce de résistance of this early section is when Hick joins the circus and sleeps with a hermaphrodite.
  — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
• A small number of rodents have no Y chromosomes, yet are born as either females or males, not hermaphrodites.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Wherefore these women may not improperly be called hermaphrodites, that is monsters of both kinds, half women, half men.
  — Longreads, 8 May 2018
• She was derided as sexless, a male hybrid, a hermaphrodite, a freak.
  — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• The first was born a hermaphrodite and left her family – who wanted her to live as a boy – for life as a Hijra in an intersex community.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2017
• Leeches are hermaphrodites and have what's known as accessory pores that secrete mucus, which helps them stick together while mating.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2019
• The majority of worms, also known as nematodes, generally break down into males and hermaphrodites.
  — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2019
• In order to maximize chances of reproduction, these fish have evolved into hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female organs, which allows them to mate with any member of their species that crosses their path.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 7 June 2017
• While in humans, male-female unions generally have a fifty-fifty shot of producing males or females, in these nematodes, coupling hermaphrodites with males will produce only male offspring.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• Thomas Jefferson, campaigning against John Adams, called him a hermaphrodite.
  — Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
• John Adams was called a hermaphrodite; Andrew Jackson's opponents claimed his mother was a prostitute.
  — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Aug. 2017
• Over centuries, the matted-haired, animal-skin wearing, hash-smoker has evolved into many things, including a hermaphrodite, for many people.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 18 Dec. 2019
• Typically the female roundworms of this intriguing species (Caenorhabditis elegans) are hermaphrodites and don’t need males to reproduce.
  — National Geographic, 14 June 2019
• She could just as easily be called, in the language of the later twentieth century, a fetishistic transvestite, a lesbian, a latent transsexual or a hermaphrodite.
  — Longreads, 8 May 2018
• In his early years, although technically a hermaphrodite, Aftab, already an outcast, identifies with the hijras.
  — Bharti Kirchner, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2017
• Burke’s Instagram is a trove of her own maximalist pileups: wraparound pygmy rings, anthropomorphic suns with their tongues wagging, a dainty torso of a hermaphrodite.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 19 July 2017
• Jeffdanielsi are mostly self-fertilizing hermaphrodites that produce their own sperm and eggs; on average, a single hermaphrodite can produce 160 babies in its lifespan.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 Jan. 2022
• Plastics that mimick estrogen turn a beluga whale into a hermaphrodite.
  — Rachel Riederer, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017
• The hermaphrodites, which produce both eggs and sperm at once, are the true solo act of the worm world.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• Snails are hermaphrodites, but their genitals need to align for mating to occur.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• The authors of the study settle the question and show that the ancestral flower was a hermaphrodite.
  — Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• The pond snail is a hermaphrodite that can choose the role of giver or taker in a relationship.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• The pond snail is a hermaphrodite that can choose the role of giver or taker in a relationship.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
• To be honest, the fact that Kaine is a hermaphrodite was never meant to be a salacious detail that would be talked about on message boards the world over.
  — John Mix Meyer, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2010

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