Definition of "gynandromorph" []

• An organism having both male and female characteristics, especially an insect exhibiting a mixture of male and female tissues or sex organs. (noun)

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• "Around one in ten thousand butterflies is a gynandromorph."
• "Blanca Huertas, curator of butterflies at the museum, said: The gynandromorph butterfly is a fascinating scientific phenomenon, and is the product of complex evolutionary processes."
• "My earliest recollection, when I was about four years old, was being sent out into the garden by my father to try and catch a very rare butterfly, a gynandromorph orange tip, that is one which is half male and half female and which, therefore, only has the orange tip on one wing."