male : Idioms & Phrases

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adult male

  • noun an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
    man.
    • there were two women and six men on the bus
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adult male body

  • noun the body of an adult man
    man's body.
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Complemental males

  • (Zoöl.), peculiar small males living parasitically on the ordinary hermaphrodite individuals of certain barnacles.
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male aristocrat

  • noun a man who is an aristocrat
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Male berry

  • noun deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers
    privet andromeda; maleberry; Lyonia ligustrina; he-huckleberry.
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  • (Bot.), a kind of coffee. See Pea berry.
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male body

  • noun the body of a male human being
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male bonding

  • noun the formation of a close personal relationship between men
    • the rituals known as male bonding do not necessarily involve drinking beer together
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male chauvinism

  • noun activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women
    antifeminism; chauvinism.
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male chauvinist

  • noun a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women
    sexist.
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male chest

  • noun the chest of a man
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male child

  • noun a youthful male person
    boy.
    • the baby was a boy
    • she made the boy brush his teeth every night
    • most soldiers are only boys in uniform
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male erecticle dysfunction

  • noun impotence resulting from a man's inability to have or maintain an erection of his penis
    ED; erectile dysfunction.
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Male fern

  • noun fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms
    Dryopteris filix-mas.
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  • (Bot.), a fern of the genus Aspidium (A. Filixmas), used in medicine as an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. Aspidium marginale in America, and A. athamanticum in South Africa, are used as good substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See Female fern, under Female.
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male genital organ

  • noun external male sex organs
    male genitalia; male genital organ; family jewels.
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male genitalia

  • noun external male sex organs
    male genitalia; male genital organ; family jewels.
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male genitals

  • noun external male sex organs
    male genitalia; male genital organ; family jewels.
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male horse

  • noun the male of species Equus caballus
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male hypogonadism

  • noun the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop)
    eunuchoidism.
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male internal reproductive organ

  • noun the reproductive organs of a man
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male monarch

  • noun a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
    king; Rex.
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male offspring

  • noun a child who is male
    man-child.
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male orchis

  • noun Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike
    Orchis mascula; early purple orchid.
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male orgasm

  • noun an orgasm accompanied by the sensation of ejaculation of semen
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male parent

  • noun a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
    begetter; father.
    • his father was born in Atlanta
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male pattern baldness

  • noun loss of hair on the crown of the head
    male pattern baldness.
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male person

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

  • noun an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
    plug.
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male reproductive gland

  • noun the reproductive organs of a man
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male reproductive system

  • noun the reproductive system of males
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Male rhyme

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

  • (Mech.), a screw having threads upon its exterior which enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female screw.
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male sibling

  • noun a sibling who is male
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Male thread

  • the thread of a male screw.
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male-

Male-
Definitions
  1. . See Mal-.
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male-odor

Male-o"dor noun
Definitions
  1. See Malodor.
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male-patterned baldness

  • noun loss of hair on the crown of the head
    male pattern baldness.
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male-spirited

Male"-spir`it*ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Having the spirit of a male; vigorous; courageous. R. B. Jonson.
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mountain male fern

  • noun a fern of the genus Dryopteris
    Dryopteris oreades.
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