male | |
1. adj. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. | |
male writers, the leading male and female singers, a male bird feeding a seed to a female, in bee colonies, all drones are male, intersex male patients | |
2. adj. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine), (m.) | |
stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration | |
3. adj. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex. | |
the male chromosome; like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones | |
4. adj. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender. | |
5. adj. (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware. | |
6. n. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender. | |
7. n. (sometimes offensive) A human member of the masculine sex or gender. | |
8. n. An animal of the sex that has testes. | |
9. n. A plant of the masculine sex. | |