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noun

a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.

an organism of the sex or sexual phase that normally produces a sperm cell or male gamete.

Botany. a staminate plant.

adjective

of, pertaining to, or being a male animal or plant.

pertaining to or characteristic of a male person; masculine: a male voice.

composed of males: a male choir.

Botany.

designating or pertaining to a plant or its reproductive structure producing or containing microspores.

(of seed plants) staminate.

Machinery. made to fit into a corresponding open or recessed part: a male plug. Compare female (def. 8).

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Male is always a great word to know.

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phase in plant life which starts with a zygote produced by sexual reproduction

plants without a xylem and phloem to transport fluid and nutrients internally

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French ma(s)le < Latin masculus. See masculine

Related forms

male·ness, noun

an·ti·male, noun, adjective

in·ter·male, adjective

su·per·male, noun

Can be confused: 1. mail, male; 2. male, masculine, macho (see synonym note at the current entry).

Synonyms
1. See man. 4–7. Male, masculine, virile are adjectives that describe men and boys or attributes and conduct culturally ascribed to them. Male, which is applied to plants and animals as well as to human beings, is a biological or physiological descriptor, classifying individuals on the basis of their potential or actual ability to inseminate in bisexual reproduction. It contrasts with female in all such uses: his oldest male relative; the male parts of the flower. Masculine refers essentially to qualities, characteristics, or behaviors deemed by a culture or society to be especially appropriate to or ideally associated with men and boys. In American and Western European culture, these have traditionally included features such as strength, forthrightness, and courage: a firm, masculine handshake; a masculine impatience at indecision. Virile implies a vigor and muscularity associated with mature manhood and often carries a suggestion of sexual or procreative potency: his virile good looks; a swaggering, virile walk. See also manly.

Antonyms
female.

Example Sentences

Like sideburns and chest hair, stubble is one of those organic male accouterments that perpetually cycles in and out of favor.

Perceptions of stress among male and female parents in academe.

Better medical care, clean water and improved public health should reduce female mortality along with male.

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Like sideburns and chest hair, stubble is one of those organic male accouterments that perpetually cycles in and out of favor.

Perceptions of stress among male and female parents in academe.

Better medical care, clean water and improved public health should reduce female mortality along with male.

It's true that male seahorses can't play catch with their children or help them with their homework.

Distinguishing between male and female human remains can be tricky, especially in cases where only partial skeletons are found.

In a mating ritual, male humpback whales leap, splash and fight.

When flowers are on separate trees, you'll get fruit on female tree only if a male tree grows nearby.

The chromosome that makes a human male has some odd characteristics.

In recent years even the burliest of male singers have gone tender.

And granted, civilization thus far was built mostly by male brainpower and testosterone.

Yet for the best of author's knowledge, male organ has not been touched in the growth literature before.

Singing to females lights up reward centers in male zebra finches' brains, a new study shows.

Male and female actors gave physics lectures to college students.

The discovery also explains why past researchers had found only female whalefishes and male bignose fishes.

Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants.

Scientists discover one of the genetic roots of male infertility.

Spas often ask clients if they prefer a male or a female technician.

More male students report body-image and eating problems.

Widespread male worklessness has huge economic, fiscal and social costs.

The parental male is the big fish in this picture and the sneaker male is the small fish.

Hermaphroditic animals are unique because they have both male and female reproductive parts.

Two male penguins show they displeasure for each other by bill-dueling, braying and head-wagging.

Male catkins produce prodigious amounts of pollen that may cover you with yellow dust on a windy day.

Scientists successfully inject male monkeys with a protein that renders the chimps temporarily infertile.

Communication between white professors and black male students.

The unfortunate male embryos then end up as pet food while the females go on to their lives as egg-mothers.

When a young, free-swimming male angler encounters a female, he latches onto her with his sharp teeth.

Also, this means the dominant male has to keep all other males from mating with his female partner or harem.

The people believe that women's bodies should be fleshy and laced with stretch-marks in order to contrast with thin, male bodies.

If a male plant is nearby, females will bear small, sour bright red or orange berries that can be used for jams and jellies.

Even though a male cichlid is one tough fish, he may be scared of his own reflection.

Researchers have suggested for years that male and female athletes may experience sport-related concussions in different ways.

Extrapolating this trend, it is not hard to picture a world where fewer and fewer male children are born.

Two huge male gorillas square off in the wild in a test of dominance.

On election night last year, testosterone levels dropped rapidly among male voters of losing parties.

Often they were the sisters, daughters and wives of better-known male artists.

If male plant is present, female produces small, sour bright red or orange berries that can be used for jams and jellies.

Atrazine is receiving lots of attention for turning male frogs into girls, but that's not all the common herbicide can do.

The idea that a dearth of available women hurts male longevity has been around for some time.

It's true that male seahorses never play catch with their children or help them with their homework.

In heat, the test females cut travel times and extended visits sharply, especially for male targets.

Some are said to kill and eat male witches they call khakhua.

Both male and female trees needed to get fruits add to my plant list.

But whenever male hair is at issue, emotions run sky-high on both sides.

Two decades ago researchers discovered that some male garter snakes mimic female behavior when they emerge from hibernation.

The male carrying on the surname only developed because of this.

Those are the bits of a male bird's brain responsible for singing, and they are.

If male trees are nearby, female tre more add to my plant list enlarge.

There is such a thing as male lactation in both human and non human mammals.

Among reptiles, it is common for one male to breed with multiple females.

Read the notice board for the latest on midwives and male bonding.

Both male and female forms are available more add to my plant list.

Nor was it dependent on the level of male promiscuity.

The male great horned owl is smaller than the female and has a much lower-pitched call.

Male and female geladas huddle together on the edge of a cliff at sunset.

Catkins of male plants are main dr more add to my plant list.

Whether that is really the right approach with male customers is, in light of this research, a moot point.

Male southern elephant seals are the largest pinnipeds in the world, larger even than walrus.

Male plants have flowers on top, so they look ratty to some, attractive to others.

Male traders tend to be young, aggressive, and full of testosterone.

And those eggs that are not fertilized and have only one copy of each gene are called haploid, and are male.

Tiny, whitish male flowers more add to my plant list enlarge.

Females aggressively protect their young, but receive no help from their solitary male mates.

In fall and winter, female plants will bear hollylike red berries if a male plant is nearby add to my plant list.

Adult female: similar to adult male but throat and eye line buffy and plumage on head brown.

Catnip seems to operate on male and female cats equally.

Male orioles have brilliant orange-golden underparts and shoulder patches, with black wings and a black head.

One posting said they would only sell male and female sets.

Broadway is shining a bright spotlight on the male psyche this autumn.

But male satin bowerbirds have cracked the code, and modify their courtship.

Many agricultural pesticides disrupt male hormones, according to new tests.

Whether in art or in fashion, the allure of the male model transcends genres.

One twin is male and the other is hermaphrodite-technically both male and female.

To keep wandering females close, male topi antelope will begin snorting and staring at nonexistent predators, a new study says.

Male wasp spiders have developed an ingenuous technique to make sure that females can't be impregnated by other males.

Male nursery web spiders aren't necessarily punished for giving false gifts.

But a perfume named for a male ballet dancer or pop musician could have a.

First, researchers videotaped two male and two female.

Male cleaner fish will chase and pester female fish if they interfere.

Male houbara bustards pay a steep price for wooing the ladies.

Normally, male finches learn their complex courtship songs from their uncles and fathers.

She asked college students, male and female, to write brief stories based on almost identical cues.

At my university the definition of diversity is any group that cannot call itself white and male.

Young female red-fronted lemurs adopt male coloration to dupe their aggressive female groupmates, a new study found.

AT the ballet, male stars often draw gasps from audiences and boost sales at the box office.

My funding is now reserved strictly for male students.

One reason for this optimism is that industries that have long been male bastions are being prized open.

We do know that the male gazelle suddenly sprang forward into a wall.

Researchers say high levels of male hormones may be the culprit.

To satisfy that test, colleges must show that their percentage of male and female athletes mirrors the overall enrollment.

Or, rather, a black-and-white photograph of a male model's glistening muscles.

Mice may not sing for their supper but male mice seem to sing to their prospective mates.

For his part, the male penguin has keenly anticipated them.

When you start this from seed, it always contains a mix of male and.

The podcast industry skews heavily toward male performers and listeners, data shows.

Yet worrying gaps remain between male and female students, and between students of different ethnic groups and family.

Caught in mid-stride, this adult male displays the long-limbed grace of a primate well suited to life in the trees.

People think of many things, even numbers, as being either male or female.

The female weighs from about one-half to two-thirds as much as her male counterpart.

If both male and female plants are present, small maroon flowers in spring will.

Female scientists are beginning to outnumber male scientists in some areas.

The male is beheaded and the female stoned to death.

The dace therefore managed to hold out for three years before the lack of male potency brought about a population crash.

The definition may change from generation to generation, but the need seems hard-wired in the male psyche.

If male trees are nearby, female trees will bear clusters of tiny fruits.

Researchers successfully transplant hair follicles from a balding male to the arm of a woman.

In addition to abandoning their traditional role of restraining their male peers, many more drunk women now face predatory males.

But they will also point to a raft of other obstacles, especially male myths and preconceptions.

Like many species, male kangaroos sometimes fight over potential mates.

Male crickets who guarded their mates against predators gained mating opportunities and offspring.

Zoo staff report the male tinamou has done a fine fathering job so far.

The male rhesus monkey is the world's first genetically modified primate.

Male students, perhaps especially redneck males, rate female teachers lower than male teachers.

Male seahorses accept the eggs, fertilize them and carry the eggs to term.

The new way to measure male endowment may be all about volume.

The top male bowerbirds have what might be called artistic talent and vigorous courtship routines.

In fact, the seahorse is the only animal where the male becomes truly pregnant.

Those throat colors announce to the lizard world what mating strategy a male will use.

Back in his lab, he placed a male spider in the lid of a cardboard box and put a female in with him.

During a break, the male confederate asked the female participants for their phone number.

Both of the female specimens lacked crests on their heads, while the narrow-hipped, possibly male specimens had crests.

Male mosquitoes genetically engineered to produce offspring that die in the larval stage are nearing a release into the wild.

The male beetle and the larvae also glow, but not as brightly as female.

And there are plenty of male writers whose efforts are consistently pooh-poohed in a similar manner.

And the winner for best male performance: a baby who laughs so hard while ripping paper that he falls over.

The mucus inside the male elephant's trunk helps deliver a concentrated whiff of the seductive scent.

And then go back to dazzle the ladies at the bar after their brief male recess".

The egg-shaped device comes in male and female versions.

So the scientists pitted male chameleons against each other and measured the range of their color change.

If playing as a male character the scene can take place between him and a human woman or a humanoid female alien.

Scientists have learned that the wild male chickens.

Conversely, when the dominant male lost, the hormone level decreased before the food game.

The male hummingbird produces a high-pitched fluttering sound during its elaborate courtship ritual.

Zeus, the divine male paragon who also happens to be a serial rapist with a wicked tendency to make and break homes.

The males got into a physical altercation and one male struck the other male near the eye with a pen.

Bright red-and-blue facial markings identify this mandrill as a mature male.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a city in and the capital of the Maldives. 17,000.

a combining form meaning “evil,” occurring in loanwords from Latin: malediction.

Compare mal-.

Origin:
< Latin; see mal-

noun

a republic in the Indian Ocean, SW of India, consisting of about 2000 islands: British protectorate 1887–1965. 280,391; 115 sq. mi. (298 sq. km). Capital: Male.

Also called Maldive Islands.

Related forms

Mal·div·i·an

[mawl-div-ee-uh

n, mal‐] , adjective, noun

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Collins

World English Dictionary

male (meɪl)

—*adj*
1.	of, relating to, or designating the sex producing gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)
2.	of, relating to, or characteristic of a man; masculine
3.	for or composed of men or boys: a male choir
4.	(of gametes) capable of fertilizing an egg cell in sexual reproduction
5.	(of reproductive organs, such as a testis or stamen) capable of producing male gametes
6.	(of flowers) bearing stamens but lacking a functional pistil
7.	electronics, mechanical engineering having a projecting part or parts that fit into a female counterpart: a male plug

—n
8.	a male person, animal, or plant

[C14: via Old French from Latin masculusmasculine]

'maleness

—n

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Word Origin & History

male

1373, from O.Fr. masle (Fr. mâle), from L. masculus "masculine, male" (cf. Prov. mascle, Sp. macho, It. maschio), dim. of mas (gen. maris) "male person or animal, male." Mechanical sense of "part of an instrument that penetrates another part" is from 1856.

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Maldives

probably from Skt. maladvipa "garland of islands," from mala "garland" + dvipa "island."

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

male (māl)
adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the sex that has organs to produce spermatozoa for fertilizing ova. n.

A member of the sex that begets young by fertilizing ova.
A man or boy.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

male (māl) Pronunciation Key
Adjective

In organisms that reproduce sexually, being the gamete that is smaller and more motile than the other corresponding gamete of the same species (the female gamete). The sperm cells of higher animals and plants are male gametes.
Possessing or being a structure that produces only male gametes. The testicles of humans are male reproductive organs. Male flowers possess only stamens and no carpels.

Noun A male organism.

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