\Ep"i*cene\, a. & n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. ?; fr. 'epi` + ?
common; cf. F. ['e]pic[`e]ne.]
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 boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to
   eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
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.