Epicene

[episi:n]

Definition

(a. & n.) 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.

(a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.

Checker: Selma

Definition

adj. and n. common to both sexes: (gram.) of either gender.

Edited by Horace