Having both male and female characteristics or sexual organs; another word for hermaphroditic.
From Greek 'andro-' (male) + '-genous' (producing/having). An older term in biological taxonomy that was gradually replaced by more precise modern terminology.
This archaic term shows how scientists originally struggled to describe organisms that broke their either/or categories—many plants are androgenous with both pollen-producing and seed-producing parts, making them nature's multitaskers.
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