male
/meɪl/ noun A2- A human member of the masculine sex or gender. · For quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
- An animal of the sex that has testes.
- A plant of the masculine sex.
- A bacterium which has the F factor.
- A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.
Plural males
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Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother’s fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
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