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One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
adjective
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Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
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a male bird feeding a seed to a female
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Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
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stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration
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Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
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the male chromosome; like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
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(grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
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Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
Examples of male in a Sentence
While male, this voice wasn't Gabriel's.
In a few moments I heard a gruff male voice ask, "Is this the swami?"
A male voice interrupted her play.
The words "mature male" crossed her mind again.
She couldn't distinguish whether it was male or female.
If you were male and born on a farm, you were almost certainly going to be a farmer.
There was the sound of a phone being shuffled from one person to another, then a flat, deep male voice.
Sarah could never understand why; she guessed it was some macho alpha male thing, but Jackson would occasionally go out looking for trouble.
A second easel stood with five photographs of a male adolescent.
Dean guessed no male juror would even bother listening to the testimony before giving her anything her little heart desired.
He likes any type of male.
I'm the oldest male healer in my guild.
Christ, I hope this guy isn't expecting some male bonding here.
The height of the male at the shoulder when full grown is usually from 8 to lc, ft., occasionally as much as II, and possibly even more.
Most male Hymenoptera have processes which form claspers or genital armature.
Now, the calm male's voice ordered.
A party of Bird Song's male residents plus the Dawkins gals had gathered in the parlor.
In size the male African elephant often surpasses the Asiatic species, reaching nearly 12 ft.
Its colours are beautiful, pink and red with a silvery gloss; but the male as it grows old takes on a singular deformity of the head, with a swelling in the shape of a monstrous human-like nose.
The male flowers are in small clusters on the usually slender and pendent stalk, forming an interrupted catkin; the stamens vary in number, usually six to twelve.
With him was extinguished the male line of the house of Babenberg.
The sexes are distinct (with the exception of a few forms that are hermaphrodite), and the male is always smaller than the female.
These "psychically decadent" individuals appear to represent the entire male sex of a bisexual species, and become unnecessary owing to the grafting of hermaphroditism on the female sex.
The adult worm, which is of extremely minute size, the male being only Fi l sth and the female s of an inch in length inhabits the alimentary canal of man and many other carnivorous mammalia; the young bore their way into the tissues and become encysted in the muscles - within the muscle-bundles according to Leuckart, but in the connective tissue between them according to Chatin and others.
Usually two are found in this position lying side by side; it would be interesting to know if these are male and female.
The female, hitherto indistinguishable from the male, continues to swell until she attains the outlines of a lemon.
The male next casts his cuticle, and by means of his spine bores FIG.
A, Male Heterodera schachtii, greatly magnified.
The male Urach line becoming extinct in 1457, an heiress carried what remained of their possessions in the Breisgau to the house of Baden.
During the rutting-season male camels become exceedingly savage and dangerous, uttering a loud bubbling roar and engaging in fierce contests with their fellows.
Durazzo, the last male scion of the Angevine house in Lower Italy, murdered Joan in 1382, and held the kingdom for five years.
They were not valid, for the investiture of the duchy had been granted only to male heirs.
The male matures when about fifteen years of age, marries when about twenty-six, begins to age when about forty, and lives on to sixty or sixty-five if he reaches old age.
Moreover, all the medusae budded from a given hydroid colony are either male or female, so that even the non-sexual polyp must be considered to have a latent sex.
Again in Pennaria, the male medusae are set free st.c, Statocyst containing the minute cyst.
Amphogona, hermaphrodite, with male and female gonads on alternating radial canals.
Physalia, general view, diagrammatic; B, cormidium of Physalia; D, palpon; T, palpacle; G, siphon; GP, gonopalpon; M d', male gonophore; M y, female gonophore, ultimately set free.
The male gametophyte is represented by one or few cells and, except in a few primitive forms where the male cell still retains the motile character as in the Pteridophyta, is carried passively to the macrospore in a development of the pollen grain, the pollen tube.
The male gametophyte is sometimes represented by a transitory prothallial cell;, the two male cells are carried passively down into the ovary and into the mouth of the ovule by means of the pollen-tube.
The female gametophyte is extremely reduced; there is a sexual apparatus of naked cells, one of which is the egg-cell which, after fusion with a male cell, divides to form a large siispensorial cell and a terminal embryo.
In many of the Fungi the non-motile male cell or nucleus is carried by means of a fertilizing tube actually into the interior of the egg-cell, and is extruded through the apex in close proximity to the egg nucleus.
In the Florideae, Lichens and Laboulbenjaceae the, male cell is a non-motile spermatium, which is carried to the female organ.
In Monoblepliaris, one of the lower Fungi, in some Algae, in the Vascular Cryptograms, in Cycads (Zamia and Cycas), and in Ginkgo, an isolated genus of Gymnosperms, the male cell is a motile spermatozoid with two or more cilia.
In some cases the region where the penetration of the male organ takes place is indicated on the oosphere by a hyaline receptive spot (Oedogonium, Vaucheria, &c.), or by a receptive papilla consisting of hyaline cytoplasm (Peronosporeae).
In many Gymnosperms the male nucleus penetrates the female nucleus before fusing with it (Blackman, Ikeno).
Fifteen grains constitute an exceedingly dangerous dose for an adult male of average weight.
Since this process is repeated for many days the habitual reaction of the stomach wellnigh exhausts the male.
This is the case of the bullfinch of the more western of these islands (Pyrrhula murina), the male of which, instead of the ruddy breast of its well-known congener (P. vulgaris), has that part of a sober mouse-colour.
A lion's share of the Mowbray estates, swollen by the great alliances of the house, heir of Breouse and Segrave, and, through Segrave, of Thomas of Brotherton, son of Edward I., fell to Howard, who, by a patent of June 28, 1483, was created duke of Norfolk and earl marshal of England with a remainder to the heirs male of his body.
An act of 1627, one of several such aimed at aggrandizing families by diverting the descent of dignities in fee from heirs general, entailed the earldom and castle of Arundel upon Thomas, earl of Arundel and Surrey and the heirs male of his body "and for default of such issue, to the heirs of his body."