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)
androgyny
1. 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.
2. Female pseudohermaphroditism.
3. A physical state of sexual ambiguity.
android, androids, androidal
1. Resembling a man; manlike (such as a robot); andromorphous.
2. An automaton resembling a man; manlike.
3. In science fiction, a robot that looks and behaves like a human being.
This is an example of an android who is working for an andric human. For the female equivalent, see gynoid.
The origin of the word robot
In 1920, a Czech playwright, Karel Capek, wrote R.U.R., a play in which automata are mass-produced by an Englishman named Rossum. The automata are meant to do the world’s work and to make a better life for human beings, but in the end they rebeled, wiped out humanity, and started a new race of intelligent life.
“Rossum comes from a Czech word, rozum, meaning "reason"; and R.U.R. stands for "Rossum’s Universal Robots", where robot is a Czech word for "worker", with the implication of involuntary servitude, so that it might be translated as "serf" or "slave".
The popularity of the play threw the old term "automaton" out of use. The new term, "robot" has replaced it in every language, so that now a robot is commonly thought of as any artificial device (often pictured in at least vaguely human form) that will perform functions ordinarily thought to be appropriate for human beings.
—New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov;
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1984, p. 866.
Despite what many people think, all robots are not androids! They may be observed as androids if they have the appearance of being masculine; however, if they show feminine characteristics, then they should be considered gynoids; as shown at this link. Of course, if a robot does not show masculine nor feminine features, then it probably should be called by its neuterized term of robot (neither feminine nor masculine). We can also create a new word: neuteroid. So, we now have three gender-characterized robots: androids, gynoids and neuteroids.
After coming up with the neuteroid idea, a Google search was made to see if the word existed; and, what do you know, there was ONE and only one neuteroid reference which happened to be a science-fiction story created by an anonymous writer at the University of Missouri Rolla, "Missouri's Premier Technological Research University".
A current attempt to see the story via a link resulted in finding out that it no longer exists!
The writer made the same distinctions between android, gynoid, and neuteroid; just as it has been presented in this section.
androlepsy
1. A custom whereby according to Athenian law, if a citizen were killed abroad, and his death unatoned for, three subjects of the offending country were seized as reprisals.
2. The taking by one nation of the citizens or subjects of another, in order to compel the latter to do justice to the former.
andrologist
A doctor who specializes in men's health, aging problems, or in treating infertile men; especially, the health of the male reproductive system.
andrology
1. The branch of medicine concerned with diseases peculiar to the male sex, particularly infertility and sexual dysfunction.
2. Scientific study of the masculine constitution and of the diseases of the male sex; especially the study of diseases of the male organs of generation.
andromania
Nymphomania [abnormal, excessive, insatiable sexual desire in the female for a man].
andromaniac
A nymphomaniac.
andromasalgia
Painfulness of the male breast; especially at puberty.
andromedotoxin
A poisonous crystalline substance found in various ericaceous plants; especially, the genus Andromeda [a genus of shrubs of which one dwarf herb-like species is native to Britain and others to North America].
andromerogone
An embryo that develops from the portion of an egg containing the male pronucleus. The embryo therefore only contains paternally derived chromosomes.
andromerogony
The development of an andromerogone.
andromimesis, andromimetic
1. Producing male characteristics; having a masculinizing effect; simulating the action of androgen.
2. Simulating the effect of male hormones, thus producing masculine characteristics.
3. The state of a woman who lives full-time as a man. Unlike transvestic fetishism, in which cross-dressing appears episodically because it is required for erotic arousal and orgasm, the anderomimetic adopts the male role and appearance full-time and may undergo hormonal masculinization, hysterectomy, breast removal, or full sex-reassignment surgery.
The counterpart of andromimesis in the male is gynemimesis. andromimetophilia
A paraphilia [a psychosexual disorder characterized by recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies] in which sexual arousal and orgasm are dependent on the subject being the partner of a male impersonator.
andromonoecious, andromonoecism
In botany, having male and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
andromorphic, andromorphy
Having a morphological (shape, form) resembling males.
 If you would like to take a couple of self-scoring quizzes over some of the words in this section, then click on the Andro-Quiz so you can see how much you know about these "andro" words.
Links to other units that include the topic of "man", "mankind":
anthropo-;
homo-;
vir-.
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