A hermaphrodite is a scientific word for an organism that has both male and female gonads.

The sexual generation consists of individuals featuring eight muscle bands, each having male or female gonads.

It is formed at the cranial tip of the male and female gonad during the larval stage.

The barnacle host species are simultaneous hermaphrodites, with both male and female gonads in each adult.

In mature individuals, the male gonads are cream coloured and the female gonads bright red.

Male and female gonads vary only slightly and the main difference is the thickness of the follicle.

This contrasts simultaneous hermaphrodites, in which an individual may possess fully functional male and female gonads.

Maritigrella crozierae is a simultaneous hermaphrodite, which means that an individual has both male and female gonads at the same time.

In the female gonad the evolution of the gamete, or ovum, is like that described for the male gametes, with two exceptions.

Like other bathypteroid fishes, Ipnops is hermaphroditic, with male and female gonads combined into a single organ.

Thus, for example, in many jurisdictions a person with XY chromosomes but female gonads could be recognized as female at birth.

The polyps are hermaphrodite, possessing four sets of male and four sets of female gonads.

The ovaries are the female gonads, and they are developed from the same embryonic tissue as the male gonads (testicles).

Acropora secale is a hermaphrodite and both female gonads and testes are present and mature once a year.

Both male and female gonads of sea urchins are also consumed particularly in Japan, Peru, Spain and France.

P. meandrina is a hermaphrodite and each polyp contains four sets of male and four sets of female gonads.

It constitutes the outermost layer of the male and female gonads, thus forming the germinal epithelium of the female or of the male.

The gonads, in a "bipotential state," may develop into either testes (the male gonads) or ovaries (the female gonads), depending on the consequent events.

In higher animals, ova are produced by female gonads (sexual glands) called ovaries and all of them are present at birth in mammals and mature via oogenesis.

The male and female gonads are subsequently activated, which puts them into a state of rapid growth and development; the triggered gonads now commence the mass production of the necessary chemicals.

Their roe (male and female gonads) is soft and melting, with a colour ranging from orange to pale yellow, and is sought after as a human delicacy in many parts of the world.

In a study in the Gulf of Mexico, where this species is a dominant member of the shallow reef community, it was found that the female gonads began developing in January and the male gonads in April.