Brent Spiner's child by Whoopi Goldberg. Hermaphrodite n. 1. A person biologically intermediate between male and female. The term 'intersexual' is now preferred for senses 1a and 1b. Something that is a combination of diverse elements.
Many people think the term 'hermaphrodite' applies only to a person with both a penis and vagina.
This mistaken idea comes from a variety of disreputable sources, but chiefly, I think, from pornographic movies, which sometimes feature 'hermaphrodites' made the same way as the unicorn in Blade Runner . Using the porn-movie definition of hermaphrodite in correspondence with the compiler of this Dictionary may be taken as prima facie evidence that you are short of clues. Hermaphroditus n. 1. A youth in Greek myth, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who was joined in one body with the nymph Salmacis while bathing. The best-known telling of this story is in Ovid's Metamorphoses .