Definition of aphrodite

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Aphrodite (n.) A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

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Hercogamous :: Hercogamous (a.) Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.
Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse..
Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.
Gynodioecious :: Gynodioecious (a.) Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers..
Hermaphrodite :: Hermaphrodite (a.) Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower..
Gonochorism :: Gonochorism (n.) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless..
Scrat :: Scrat (n.) An hermaphrodite.
Epicene :: Epicene (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..
Fritillary :: Fritillary (n.) One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite.
Silverspot :: Silverspot (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus Argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite..
Perfect :: Perfect (a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
Trigamous :: Trigamous (a.) Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers..
Dimorphism :: Dimorphism (n.) Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly..
Androgyne :: Androgyne (n.) An hermaphrodite.
Bisexual :: Bisexual (a.) Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes..
Sea Mouse :: Sea mouse () A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides..
Eros :: Eros (n.) Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid..
Cestus :: Cestus (n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
Ovotesttis :: Ovotesttis (n.) An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.
Aphrodisian :: Aphrodisian (a.) Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. Aphrodisian dames [that is, courtesans]..
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