HERMAPHRODITE, a person of both sexes, or who has the parts of generation both of male and female.
It is now generally allowed, that there is no such thing as a true hermaphrodite; most, if not all those who pass for such, being mere women, whose clitoris is grown to an enormous size, and the labia pudendi become unusually tumid.
Among the insect-class of animals, indeed, hermaphrodites are very frequent: such as worms, snails, leeches, &c.