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English
Etymology
From gyn- + andr- + -oid.
Adjective
gynandroid (not comparable)
- Seeming to have both male and female attributes.
(Can we date this quote?), Pamphlets on Biology:Gynandroid males have in addition to the male set of external genitalia, one or more reproductive appendages resembling a short ovipositor sheath or even a sting.
1968, Curt Stern, Genetic Mosaics and Other Essays, Harvard University Press, page 38:If, in respect to a certain gene or gene complex X, the diploid female parent was heterozygous, for example Xa Xb, then the gynandroid mosaics were haploid Xa in one part of their body and haploid Xb in the other.
2009, Richard Cleminson, Francisco Vázquez García, Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850–1960, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN, pages 144 and 187:The three cases referred to by the authors were all of the gynandroid type in whom testicles in different stages of atrophy were found. […] Such a discovery obliged the doctors to reverse their diagnosis – instead they had a case of a ‘pseudohermafrodita ginandroide’ (gynandroid pseudo-hermaphrodite) or a ‘niña pseudohermafrodita’ (pseudo-hermaphrodite girl).
Noun
gynandroid (plural gynandroids)
- Synonym of pseudohermaphrodite
1911, British Medical Journal, page 694:The regular gynandroid has ovaries proved to be so histologically, with external organs of the male type, the urethra running in the clitoris (as in lemurs), a well-marked perineal raphe, and no vulva.
1912, Pacific Medical Journal, page 429:Auvray (Revue de gynéc. et de chir. abd., April, 1912) writes about a gynandroid or pseudo-hermaphrodite woman aged 72, who died of intestinal obstruction after refusing surgical aid.
1913, Surgery, page 125:Pozzi has recently described an example which he removed from a pseudohermaphrodite (a gynandroid) aged thirty.
1988, Daniel S. Grosch, “Genetics Research on Braconid Wasps”, in E. W. Caspari, John G. Scandalios, editors, Advances in Genetics, volume 25, Academic Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 114:Unfortunately there were no genetic markers in the parents producing these gynandroids.
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