Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HER-MAPH'RO-DITE, n. [Fr. from Gr. ερμαφροδιτος; ερμης, Mercury, and αφροδιτη, Venus.]

1. A human being, having the parts of generation both of male and female. The term is applied also to other animals characterized by a similar formation. Encyc.
2. In botany, a flower that contains both the stamen and the pistil, or the male and female organs of generation, within the same calyx or on the same receptacle. Martyn. Encyc.
3. A plant that has only hermaphrodite flowers. Martyn.