1. An animal or plant having both male and female reproductive organs: Hermaphrodites are organisms; such as, earthworms or flowering plants, having both male and female reproductive organs in a single individual.
2. Etymology: through Middle English, hermofrodite, from the Latin element hermaphroditus, which came from Greek hermaphroditos, from Hermaphroditos, the son of Aphrodite and Hermes (Latin: Mercury and Venus) who merged into one form or became joined in body with the nymph Salmacis.