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male
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adj.
of or denoting the sex that produces small, typically motile gametes, esp. spermatozoa, with which a female may be fertilized or inseminated to produce offspring:
male children.
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relating to or characteristic of men or male animals; masculine:
male unemployment
a deep male voice.
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(of a plant or flower) bearing stamens but lacking functional pistils.
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(of parts of machinery, fittings, etc.) designed to enter, fill, or fit inside a corresponding female part.
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n.
a male person, plant, or animal:
the audience consisted of adult males
the male of the species.
DERIVATIVES:
male·ness
n.
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Male dominance linked to size and age, but not to 'good genes' in brown trout ( Salmo trutta ).(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...from another river. In the first experiment we found that older, heavier and larger males are more dominant in male-male interactions. In both experiments males differ in their genetic quality, but dominant males do not seem to be of superior...
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Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...particularly the heterosexual male body, which Thomas argues is...is an 'invisibility' of the male body and its productions which...book. 'My argument is that males accede to the dominant fiction...production that abjection patrols: 'Male Matters might be called a performative...
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Male-biased breeding ground fidelity and longevity in American Golden-Plovers.
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Additional evidence of male-biased fidelity in dominicus (4 of 7 males and 0 of 2 females...the nest where the male had been banded in a previous season, two males had moved about 250...involving four banded males) in which the male reoccupied his usual...
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Male survivors' perspectives of incest/sexual abuse
Magazine article from: Perspectives in Psychiatric Care; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...forms of sexual abuse from male survivors' perspectives...help clinicians identify males with a possible history...Audiotaped interviews with 25 male survivors described the...studies focus on adult male survivors. Although the sexual abuse of males has been considered rare...
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Male Development Time Influences the Strength of Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Expression in Drosophila melanogaster
Magazine article from: Genetics; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Here, we show that male development time can...In a given family, males that develop fastest...of ways, including male killing, feminization of genetic males, parthenogenesis...Wolbachia found in the male. The reciprocal cross between uninfected males and infected females...
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Male residency and mating patterns in a subsocial spider.
Magazine article from: Journal of Arachnology; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...In spiders, where males tend to move around in search of females, a male's mating success...towards the first male to mate, males should seek out and...unbiased with respect to male mating order. In such a case, males should preferentially...
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Male postbariatric surgery: unlike females, men are not as concerned about scar placement, a defined waistline, or buttock shaping.(THE BODY)
Magazine article from: Plastic Surgery Products; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...patients--as well as male gastric bypass patients...explain: overall, males are not as body...adherence, is missing in males. In evaluating the arms, although the male body has more muscle...in females. Some males will require corrective...degree than females. Male thighs, again ...
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Male-killing endosymbionts: influence of environmental conditions on persistence of host metapopulation.(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology; 9/2/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...feminization (infected genetic males reproduce as females...cross between infected male and an uninfected female...can also be expected in male killing endosymbionts...environment [17] and male killer prevalence will be reduced because some males always survive. It remains...
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Male on Male Rape: The Hidden Toll of Stigma and Shame.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Sex Research; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; UNVEILING MALE RAPE: NO MAN IS IMMUNE Male on Male Rape: The Hidden Toll of Stigma and Shame. By Michael Scarce. New York: Insight Books, 1997, 311 pages. Cloth, $27.95. Reviewed by Michael D. Lyde, M.A., Department of Psychology...
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Male-pattern violence.(Feature)
Magazine article from: off our backs; 9/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...get when feminists start talking about male violence. The statement "Most violent...the radical feminist of man-hating, male-bashing, and unfairness, and of wanting...Why do both men and women resist naming male violence? One reason is that we are afraid...
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Male
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...and politics by males. — androcratic...paternal chromosomes; male parthenogenesis...abnormal aversion to males. patriarchy 1...father or oldest male is the supreme authority...traced through the male line. 2. government by males, with one as supreme...
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male
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...masculine: male unemployment a deep male voice. ∎ (of...corresponding female part. • n. a male person, plant, or animal: the audience consisted of adult males the male of the species. DERIVATIVES: male...
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Sex in the 1960s: The Male Pill
Book article from: American Decades
...development of an effective male birth-control pill. One social...the technique. Diamines The male pill was developed from research...arrested maturation of the sperm in males, making them sterile. Dr...the diamines on thirty-nine male convicts at the Oregon State...
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Male Impersonation
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Male Impersonation. Since in the early theatre...mainly played by men and boys, the question of male impersonation did not arise until actresses...their success in the temporary assumption of male attire when playing such parts as Rosalind...
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Male orgasmic disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Male orgasmic disorder Definition Male orgasmic disorder may be defined as a persistent or recurrent inability...dyspareunia , and others. Description The individual affected by male orgasmic disorder is unable to experience an orgasm following a...
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