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(1):

(a. & n.) 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):

(a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.