[Jaey]

Does anyone know what the word "morphodite" means?
It's not in the Mac OS X dictionary, and both dictionary.com and m-w.com require me to be a "premium member", or something.

Help me.

[Dex13]

morpho- a combining form meaning "form, structure": morphology.

[:XI:]

from http://www.schoolnotes.com/27410/crone.html :
morphodite____probably meant to be hermaphrodite, something that is a combination between diverse elements

from http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles...c_bullet.shtml :
Usually a cretin, morphodite, or old COBOL programmer selected to be the system administrator by a committee of cretins, morphodites, and old COBOL programmers.

from http://www.amboyz.org/articles/f2mwords/f2mmno.html :
MORPHODITE: (19th century Western US) a queer person, a gay man or lesbian woman, esp one who is obviously so; a gay man, a drag queen, an effeminate man, a fairy; less often a bull dike or masculine woman; any person who obviously violates traditional gender expectations; in rural communities tolerance was/is often extended to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people who conformed to the gender norm while 'morphodites' and 'queers' were/are subjected to harassment and discrimination (cf queer, transgender)

Take your pick. Here's the google search I used.

[Dex13]

Science Fiction

and oh

morphodite: colloquialism for hermaphrodite.

[Stradlater]

via OED:

1. Originally: a hermaphrodite; a person having both male and female sex characteristics. In later use also: a homosexual man or woman, esp. one overtly manifesting features or attributes regarded as characteristic of the opposite sex; a transvestite.

2. U.S. A sailing vessel combining the characteristics of two different types of craft; esp. one having the features of both a brig and a schooner. Obs.

3. Eng. regional (east.). A wagon able to be converted into a cart. Cf. MORFREY n.