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 epicene ['episi:n]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 通性的, 有两性特征的

n. 阴阳人


  1. An epicene statue.
    通性的塑像
  2. Judy is an epicene person.
    茱迪是个阴阳人。
  3. Mr. Green's epicene style of writing appeals to nobody.
    没有人对格林先生软弱的文体发生兴趣。


epicene
[ noun ]
  1. one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made

  2. <noun.person>
[ adj ]
  1. having an ambiguous sexual identity

  2. <adj.all>
  3. having unsuitable feminine qualities

  4. <adj.all>


Epicene \Ep"i*cene\, a. & n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. ?; fr. 'epi` + ?
common; cf. F. ['e]pic[`e]ne.]
1. Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to
such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the
masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes;
as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to
eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

2. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

The literary prigs epicene. --Prof.
Wilson.

He represented an epicene species, neither churchman
nor layman. --J. A.
Symonds.

  1. Only David Margulies as the epicene Foppy manages to be outrageous and affecting at the same time.
  2. At the centre of this drama was an epicene upper middle-class youth who had a truly fin de siecle obsession with a classy blonde model.
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