androgenous

comparative more androgenous · superlative most androgenous

1. biochemistryOf, pertaining to, or producing androgens; androgenic

   The Leydig cells play a primary role in synthesis of androgenous hormones in gonochoristic fish.

   1983, B.J. Duchac et al., “Electron microscopical studies of gonads in primary and secondary males of protogynous hermaphroditic fish”, in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, →DOI

2. misspellingMisspelling of androgynous.

   It would be a bad day for bears, though, if the contentious instruments of sexism were to surface in the world of arctophilia. Teddy bears are on the whole remarkably androgenous figures, as dressing them in different styles of clothes will demonstrate.

   1996, Peter Ford, Teddy Bears, page 13