hermie

plural hermies

1. childishinformalA hermit crab.

   […] she went right to work catching hermies in the millpond […]

   2012, George Howe Colt, The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home

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   Your hermies need a second home to chill out in whenever they're sick or molting.

   2011, Kelli A. Wilkins, Hermit Crabs For Dummies

plural hermies

1. informalA hermaphrodite.

   If a favorite variety tends to “go hermie", growers often pick out individual male flowers as they are discovered. Some growers let the pollen from these hermaphrodites fertilize females.

   2002, Jorge Cervantes, Indoor Marijuana Horticulture, →ISBN

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   2007, KS Augustin, Hunted Hermaphrodite Lover, Challis Tower (publ.), →ISBN. Get rid of the hermie, get rid of the sex-starved engineer, jail the saboteur, write the reports, then sit back and enjoy the peace.

1. A diminutive of the male given name Herman
2. A diminutive of the female given name Hermione