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- noun Common misspelling of
androgyny .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization
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Examples
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At Vena Cava the inspiration was rock 'n' roll and androgeny.
Anna De Souza: Fashion Week 2011 Beauty at Vena Cava, Christian Siriano and Tadashi Shoji (PHOTOS) Anna De Souza 2011
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At Vena Cava the inspiration was rock 'n' roll and androgeny.
Anna De Souza: Fashion Week 2011 Beauty at Vena Cava, Christian Siriano and Tadashi Shoji (PHOTOS) Anna De Souza 2011
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It all recalls Shakespeare's games with androgeny, his boys playing girls playing boys.
Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review) 2010
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Addresses London's relationships with women, his concept of androgeny, and his examination of masculinity and femininity in the society of his day.
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"You never dress in standard dyke androgeny, so it's just gotten my interest because it's different than usual, that's all."
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: PAINTERLAND Maggie Jochild 2007
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Yet another one fooled by the 1980s style of sexual androgeny!
The guys who sang 'Rock Steady' were old? (And other cases of mistaken identity) | EW.com 2008
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Here we have the first regulation against fetishism and the perverted tendencies of gynandry and androgeny.
Satyricon 2007
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At another gallery we discovered a new artist who has a unique take on the human figure, combining masculine and feminine shapes into androgeny like a SF sex paper's classified ads, and later we lounged around Henry Vermillion's Galeria Izamal.
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I come down on discussing mysogeny and androgeny, and they are best discussed by the persons who consider themselves to be progressive, knowledgeable and open minded.
Publishing Without Comfort; Thoughts on Editorial Policy 2007
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Here we have the first regulation against fetishism and the perverted tendencies of gynandry and androgeny.
The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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