andro-, andr-, -ander, -andra, -andria, -andrian, -andric, -andrism, -androus, -andries, -andry +
(Greek: man, men, male, masculine; also, stamen or anther as used in botany; the opposite of woman or women)
androgenize, androgenized
1. Subjected to the production or presence of an excess of androgen in the female.
2. Normally virilized, as in the male.
androgenotherapy
Treatment with androgenic hormones, such as testosterone.
androgenous
1. Pertaining to the production of exclusively male offspring [adjective form of androgenesis].
2. Pertaining to the preferential production of male offspring.
androgenus
Pertaining or tending to the production of male rather than female offspring.
androgone
A spermatogenic cell.
androgophobia
A coined word meaning the excessive fear of insulting a feminist and being labeled a male chauvinist.
—Psychology Today, March, 1984
androgygreed (androgyny + greed)
The concept that, especially at the corporate executive level, the two genders will equally demonstrate avarice, savagery, unbridled competition, etc.; particularly, the notion that female lawyers and politicians are fit counterparts to their male colleagues.
androgynal
Combining all of the coarseness of the one sex with all of the weaknesses of the other.
androgynally
After the manner of hermaphrodites [a plant or animal having both male and female reproductive organs and secondary sexual characteristics or a person who has both male and female elements of genital structure and both male and female secondary sexual characteristics].
androgynary
Applied to flowers in which both stamens and pistils are developed into petals, as in the double narcissus.
androgyne, androgyneity, androgynism, androgyny
1. The unity of the physical characters of both sexes; a hermaphrodite.
2. A female pseudohermaphrodite.
3. A person who displays a mixture of female and male roles.
4. Female pseudohermaphroditism [a genetic and gonadal female, with partial masculinization; also known as female intersex].
androgynic
Pertaining to androgyny; having both male and female characteristics.
androgynoid
1. A male resembling a female; or possessing female features.
2. A pseudohermaphrodite.
3. Pertaining to female pseudohermaphroditism.
androgynophilia
Bisexuality, but more specifically denoting sexual relationships with a man and a woman, either serially or concurrently (as in a “threesome”), by either a man or a woman.
androgynous, androgynus, androgynic, androgyne, androgynism
1. Uniting the (physical) characteristics of both sexes, at once male and female; hermaphrodite.
2. A reference to men who are considered "womanish, effeminate".
3. Pertaining to or characterized by female pseudohermaphroditism.
4. Pertaining to a state of phenotypic ambiguity with respect to sexual characteristics.
5. Having both masculine and feminine characteristics, as in attitudes and behaviors that contain features of stereotyped, culturally sanctioned sexual roles of both male and female.
6. In botany, bearing both stamens and pistils in the same flower, or on the same plant.

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