On the other hand, many hermaphroditic flowers, although they have both sorts of sex-organs, are incapable of fertilizing themselves and have to receive this from insect visitors which carry the pollen from one flower to another.
Here we have a hermaphroditic gland with a number of tubes, each of which forms ovaries in its outer part and sperma in the inner.
Natural hermaphroditic reproduction occurs only among inferior classes of animals, and naturalists inform us that there are a greater number of these than of the more perfect varieties.
Hermaphroditic figure a symbol of Deity as Generator and Producer, 851-m.
Hermaphroditic figure of Valentinus a symbol of the double nature, 851-m.
Mendes: the universal agent represented by hermaphroditic goat of, 734-u.
The Hermaphroditic figure is the Symbol of the double nature anciently assigned to the Deity, as Generator and Producer, as BRAHM and MAYA among the Aryans, Osiris and Isis among the Egyptians.
Hermaphroditic figure emerges from the Orphic egg, symbolizing the two causes, 655-l.
The Gnostics held that it composed the igneous body of the Holy Spirit; and it was adored in the secret rites of the Sabbat or the Temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of Baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of Mendes.
The division of the First and Supreme Cause into two parts, one Active and the other Passive, the Universe Agent and Patient, or the hermaphroditic God-World, is one of the most ancient and widespread dogmas of philosophy or natural theology.
We are here only concerned with the mechanism which determines the block to the entrance of a spermatozoon into an egg of the same hermaphroditic individual.
Rhabdonema nigrovenosum, a parasite living in the lungs of the frog, is hermaphroditic, but its eggs produce not a hermaphroditic generation but one with the two separate sexes; this generation is not parasitic and lives in the soil.
In the light of this conclusion the observations on the regeneration of both ovaries and testicles which Janda observed in a hermaphroditic worm, Criodrilus lacuum,[194] is no longer so mysterious.
But Athene is the embodiment of the new hermaphroditic ideal of the Greek which stood in close connexion to their homosexuality, and with which I propose to deal later on.
On the festivals of the hermaphroditic Dionysus and Demeter, which are identical with the cults of Adonis and Mylitta, the impersonal, generative elements were worshipped.
Plato's myth in the Banquet and the hermaphroditic statues of antiquity show how acute minds, working ahead of science, exercised themselves with these problems.
In the case of the third (hermaphroditic or lunar) sex, one set of reproductive organs was male, the other female.
The group of a Satyr tempting a youth at Naples stands alone among numerous similar compositions which have female or hermaphroditic figures, and which symbolise the violent and comprehensive lust of brutal appetite.
Such a condition with other associate malformations of the genitalia might easily be mistaken for an instance of hermaphroditic testicles.
At this time were also reported double hermaphroditic terata, seemingly without latter-day analogues.
In hermaphroditic plants in which there may be either self-fertilization or else cross-fertilization with other individuals of the same species, the latter produces better results in number and vigor of offspring.
Again, Darwin has very ingeniously and successfully explained the case of the beauty and fragrance of flowers of hermaphroditic plants by another principle, viz.
Even in the hermaphroditic slugs (Limax maximus) the process of courtship is slow and elaborate.
He noted the significance of the action of the hermaphroditic snails in inserting their darts into each other's flesh near the vulva in order to cause preliminary excitation.
As a matter of fact, it is only through misunderstanding that these deistic representations are designated hermaphroditic in the medical sense of the word.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hermaphroditic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
