epicene
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).
- Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.
- Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex.
- Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face.
- Indeterminate; mixed.
- Of a man: effeminate.
Noun
- An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class.
- An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite.
- A transsexual; also, a transvestite.
- An effeminate man.
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