Ep"i*cene (?), a. & n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. &?;; fr. 'epi` + &?; common; cf. F. épicène.]
1.
Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
2.
Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
The literary prigs epicene.
Prof. Wilson.
He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman.
J. A. Symonds.
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Ep"i*cœne (?), a.
Epicene. [R.] Hadley.
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