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male

/meyl/US // meɪl //UK // (meɪl) //

男性,雄性,男性的,男

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating 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. staminate.
    • : Machinery. made to fit into a corresponding open or recessed part: a male plug.Compare female.

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Examples

  • But, importantly, Dawkins argues, you can also see it as an adaptation on the part of the male mouse, a way that his phenotype is manipulating the female’s reproductive timing.

  • His primary patients — the players — are all male, mostly very young, and of course extraordinarily athletic.

  • The company that breeds the modified males says it addressed people’s concerns about environmental impacts.

  • Almost nine in every 10 male skeletons showed signs of cut marks that occurred around the time of death — as did eight in 10 of the female skeletons.

  • Most consumers are male, while sellers are women, often the family breadwinners.

  • The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.

  • As a white, educated, Western, middle-class male, I possess most of the unearned privilege the world has to offer.

  • Complete male reproductive independence would also hinge on artificial womb technology, which also made headlines in 2014.

  • These days, plenty of women are turning to online sites for no-frills male companionship.

  • Families stuff a life-size male doll with memories of the outgoing year and dress him in their clothing.

  • Now what should college give the young citizen, male or female, upon the foundation of schooling we have already sketched out?

  • Are you quite sure you have never suffered from this rather common disorder, gentle reader, at least, if you be of the male sex?

  • In these rooms male and female alike were confined, at one time to the number of fifteen; each being allowed 3d.

  • What she meant neither the Reverend John Dodd, or any other male person, could ever truly know.

  • When Yung Pak ate his meals, he sat upon a rug on the floor with his father and such male guests as might be in the house.