EPICENE

Ep″i‐cene (?), a. & n. [[L. epicoenus, Gr. �; fr. επἴ + � common; cf. F. épicène.]] 1. 1. 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 βου̑σ, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
2. 2. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
The literary prigs epicene. Prof. Wilson. He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman. J. A. Symonds.