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This definition was found at the following link: http://www.beetfo">http://www.beetfoundation.com/words/h/hermaphrodite.html">http://www.beetfo undation.com/words/h/hermaphrodite.html From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hermaphrodite \Her*maph"ro*dite\, n. [L. hermaphroditus, Gr ?, so called from the mythical story that Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, when bathing, became joined in one body with Salmacis, the nymph of a fountain in Caria: cf F. hermaphrodite.] (Biol.)
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