"man-woman" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-us-ncalif-manwoman.ogg [Northern-California, US] Forms: man-women [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|man-women}} man-woman (plural man-women)
  1. A masculine woman. Categories (topical): Gender
    Sense id: en-man-woman-en-noun-EQFW3Dx1 Disambiguation of Gender: 49 51
  2. A hybrid of man and woman; hermaphrodite. Categories (topical): Gender
    Sense id: en-man-woman-en-noun-Cvt7lN8~ Disambiguation of Gender: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 63 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 89 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 11 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: he-she

Inflected forms

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