The difference between Gender and Hermaphrodite
When used as nouns, gender means a division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, whereas hermaphrodite means an individual or organism possessing ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.
Gender is also verb with the meaning: to assign a gender to (a person).
Hermaphrodite is also adjective with the meaning: having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.
check bellow for the other definitions of Gender and Hermaphrodite
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Gender as a noun (grammar):
Grammatical gender. A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common. Any division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate.
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Gender as a noun (obsolete):
Class; kind.
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Gender as a noun (now, sometimes, _, proscribed):
Sex .
Examples:
"the gene is activated in both genders"
"The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors."
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Gender as a noun (sociology):
Identification as a man, a woman or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis.
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Gender as a noun (hardware):
The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
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Gender as a verb (sociology):
To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
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Gender as a verb (sociology):
To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
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Gender as a verb (archaic):
To engender.
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Gender as a verb (archaic, or, obsolete):
To breed.
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Hermaphrodite as a noun:
An individual or organism possessing ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.
Examples:
"An earthworm is a hermaphrodite."
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Hermaphrodite as a noun:
A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
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Hermaphrodite as a noun (nautical):
A hermaphrodite brig.
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Hermaphrodite as a noun:
A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
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Hermaphrodite as an adjective (of an, individual organism):
Having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.
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Hermaphrodite as an adjective:
Combining two opposing qualities.