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adjective. Of, relating to, or designating the sex that has organs to produce spermatozoa for fertilizing ova.

adjective. Characteristic of or appropriate to this sex in humans and other animals.

adjective. Consisting of members of this sex.

adjective. Of or denoting the gamete that is smaller and more motile than the other corresponding gamete. Used of anisogamous organisms.

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adjective. Relating to or designating organs, such as anthers or antheridia, that produce gametes capable of fertilizing those produced by female organs.

adjective. Bearing stamens but not pistils; staminate.

adjective. Designating an object, such as an electric plug, designed for insertion into another part or a socket.

noun. A male organism.

noun. A man or boy.

noun. An obsolete form of mail.

Bad; evil; wicked

Pertaining to the sex of human kind, and by extension to that of animals in general, that begets young, as distinguished from the female, which conceives and gives birth: as, a male child; a male beast, fish, or fowl.

In botany, staminate: said of organs or flowers.

Pertaining to or characteristic of males of the human kind, or men as opposed to women; appropriate to men; masculine: as, male attire; a male voice.

Composed of males; made up of men and boys: as, a male choir.

Possessing some quality or attribute considered as characteristic of males.

Generative; fruitful, as an idea. In this sense, Bacon entitles one of his treatises the “Male Birth of Time.”

noun. One of the sex of human kind that begets young; a man or boy; by extension, and usually, one of the sex of any animal that begets young: opposed to female.

noun. In plants characterized by sexual differences and reproduced by sexual generation, that individual of which the special function is to form the substance essential to the fertility of the germ developed by the female.

noun. An apple.

noun. The dandelion.

noun. The knot, a sandpiper, Tringa canutus.

noun. See mal-.

noun. A ‘male’ precious stone. In the middle ages and until quite recent times, all the darker gems, such as sapphire, ruby, and topaz, were known as ‘male’ gems; the lighter blue, lighter red, or lighter yellow were called ‘female’ gems.

noun. Same as mail, a bag.

adjective. Evil; wicked; bad.

noun. An animal of the male sex.

noun. A plant bearing only staminate flowers.

adjective. Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female.

adjective. Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.

adjective. Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine.

adjective. Consisting of males.

adjective. Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits

adjective. a fern of the genus Aspidium (Aspidium Filixmas), used in medicine as an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. Aspidium marginale in America, and Aspidium athamanticum in South Africa, are used as good substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See Female fern, under Female.

adjective. a rhyme in which only the last syllables agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See Female rhyme, under Female.

adjective. a screw having threads upon its exterior which enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female screw.

adjective. the thread of a male screw.

noun. Someone of male (masculine) gender:

noun. the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands

adjective. being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation

noun. a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies

adjective. for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys

noun. an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

adjective. characteristic of a man

"I define “male” and “female” in such a way as to include transpeople, which means that some of the _male_ people I know can indeed get pregnant."