gyno-, gyn-, gynaeco-, gyneco-, gyne-, -gynia, -gynic, gynec-, -gynist, -gynous, -gyny +
(Greek: woman, women, female, females; not masculine, male, man, or men)
Many of the words from these Greek elements refer to botanic or other biological nomenclature.
gynandrism, gynandrous, gynandry
A developmental abnormality characterized by hypertrophy of the clitoris and union of the labia majora, simulating in appearance the penis and scrotum.
gynandroid
An individual exhibiting gynandrism. A person with enough sexual characteristics of the opposite sex to be mistaken for a member of the opposite sex. Usually in reference to a woman resembling a male.
gynandromorph, gynandromorphic
An individual of mixed sex; a sexual mosaic having some parts genotypically and phenotypically male and other female; gynander.
gynandromorphism
1. An abnormal combination of male and female characteristics.
2. The presence of male and female sex chromosome complements in different tissues; sex chromosome mosaicism.
gynandromorphous
Having, or possessing, both male and female anatomic characteristics.
gynandrous
1. Pertaining to a hermaphrodite or a pseudohermaphrodite.
2. Applied to those flowers and plants in which the stamens and pistil are united in one column, as in orchids; said also of the stamens.
gynandry
The tendency for a female to posses certain masculine characteristics.
gynantherous
1. In botany, having stamens abnormally converted into pistils.
2. A situation in which stamens have been metamorphosed into pistils.
gynarchies
Governments run by a woman or women.
gynarchy, gynarchic
1. Government by a woman or women.
2. In zoology, a form of social organization among insects; such as, ants, bees, and wasps, in which only the female parent takes part in establishing the colony.
gynatresia
Occlusion of some part of the female genital tract, especially occlusion of the vagina by a thick membrane.
gyne
Any female organism but, without qualification, it usually refers to a fertile female or queen in a colony of social insects.
gynecentric
Holding women as the center of thoughts or activities.
gynecic, genaecic
Pertaining to the female sex or associated with women.
gynecium
The female part of a flower; also called the pistil.
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Related "woman, female" units:
anilo-;
fem-;
mulie-;
virgo-.
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