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What does epicene mean?

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Adjective
  1. (linguistics) Of or related to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to men or women but have a fixed grammatical gender.
  2. (linguistics) Of or related to nouns (in any language) that have a single form for male and female referents.
  3. (pejorative) Effeminate.
  4. (figuratively) Indeterminate; mixed.
Noun
  1. (linguistics) An epicene word.
  2. (linguistics) The epicene words of a language as a class.
  3. (pejorative) An effeminate man, particularly a man dressed as a woman.
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