The meaning of MALE is of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to produce relatively small, usually motile gametes which fertilize the eggs of a female.
The northernmost atoll is about 370 miles (600 km) south-southwest of the Indian mainland, and the central area, including the capital island of Male (Male’), is about 400 miles (645 km) southwest of Sri Lanka.
We use female and male to refer to the sex of humans and animals: … The male of the species is less aggressive. Among the bodies are two unidentified British males. This meaning is mostly used in formal or scientific writing when referring to groups of people.
Male means relating to, belonging to, or affecting men rather than women. Massive male unemployment has diminished the status of men in the family. ...the rise of female comics who have appropriated male humor.
A male is a guy, a dude, a boy, or a man. A male animal is not female. Male life forms are the opposite of females in many ways. The biggest way is that males can’t have babies.
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Males exist in plants and other animals — the male is the gamete-producing sex that fertilizes the female. Things can be male, too, like adapters that have male parts that fit into female parts. Most male animals are bigger than females, but not all. The biggest blue whales are female.