Her·maph·ro·di·tus

(hər-măf′rə-dī′təs)

n. Greek Mythology

The son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who became united in one body with the nymph Salmacis.

[Latin Hermaphrodītus, from Greek Hermaphrodītos : Hermēs, Hermes + Aphrodītē, Aphrodite; see Aphrodite.]

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Hermaphroditus

(hɜːˌmæfrəˈdaɪtəs)

(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body

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Moulton introduces the reader to Antonio Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus (ca 1425), a collection of controversial Latin epigrams that are direct and explicit in terms of sex and desire (and unfortunately, pederasty).

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This species is one of only two known vertebrates that exist as self-fertilizing hermaphrodites, with the other being its sister species, Kryptolebias hermaphroditus (Costa, 2011; see Tatarenkov et al., 2017 for a recent discussion on taxonomy).

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Furthermore, the Pre-Raphaelites' determination to disintegrate Victorian gender roles was illustrated in Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Hermaphroditus." In this poem Swinburne attempted to transgress the Victorian binary gender divide by praising the androgyne.

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170-284), and the origin story for "bi-sexed" Hermaphroditus (IV.

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While Rodin's models were indeed "two priestesses of the isle of Lesbos," Rodin explained to the important Danish collector and Carlsberg beer magnate Carl Jacobsen in 1907 that the particular Ovidian metamorphosis he really had in mind and tried to capture in his title was the tale directly following that of Daphnis and Chloe in Book IV of The Metamorphoses: the tale of the water nymph Salmacis, who falls in love with the boy Hermaphroditus (Le Normand-Romain 74).

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Nec hermaphroditus, etiam si in eo praevaleat sexus virilis."

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1C) Dysmicoccus neobrevipes [Polifaga] 10, 14, 15, 19, Beardsley, 1959 20, 30, 31, 35 Dysmicoccus radicis Coffea sp., Cyperus (Green, 1933) (1) hermaphroditus 1, 15, 31 (Fig.

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It is widely suspected that the term "hermaphrodite" first appeared in ancient Greek mythology describing Hermaphroditus, the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite, who possessed both female and male physical characteristics [1].

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Luwak coffee is any coffee bean (arabica or robusta) which has been eaten and passed through the digestive tract of Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), which uses its keen senses to select only the best and ripest berries.

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