Hermaphrodite (disambiguation)
A hermaphrodite is an organism that possesses both male and female reproductive organs during its life. For human hermaphrodites, see intersexuality. It can also refer to the following:
- Hermaphroditus, a character in Greek mythology; origin of the word hermaphrodite
- The Hermaphrodite, a novel by Julia Ward Howe
- Hermaphroditic connector, gender of connectors and fasteners
- Hermaphrodite brig, a type of sailing ship
- Hermaphrodite (botany), an individual plant that has only bisexual reproductive units, or a plant population comprising plants whose flowers have both male and female parts
- Hermaphrodite caliper, a type of caliper used to measure the distance between two opposite sides of an object
- Hermaphrodite (Nadar), a series of photographs of an intersex person taken by 19th-century French photographer Nadar
- Bovine hermaphrodite, an infertile female mammal which has masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries
- Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite, a book by Michael de Larrabeiti
- True hermaphrodite, a medical term for an intersex condition in which an individual is born with ovarian and testicular tissue
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