ANDROG'YNOUS, a. [Gr. a man and woman.] Having two sexes; being male and female; hermaphroditical.In botany, the word is applied to plants which bear both male and female flowers from the same root, as birch, walnut, oak, chestnut, mulberry, &c. These plants constitute the monecian class in Linne's system, and frequently have an amentum, thong or catkin, for a calyx.
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