male

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male • adjective  male bird/plant/characteristics synonyms : masculine, manlike, manly, virile. antonyms: female; feminine.   USAGE NOTES   manful, manly, mannish, masculine, virile

We speak of a male ancestor, a masculine scent, and a manly activity, but only of women as mannish . While all of these adjectives apply to what is characteristic of the male of the species (particularly the human species), male can refer to plants or animals as well as human beings and is used to describe whatever is biologically distinguished from the female sex (an all-male ...

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