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male
adjective (SEX) /meɪl/Definition
B1 describes men or boys, or the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or eggs itself: male students a male giraffe IT is very much a male-dominated industry. What percentage of the adult male population is unemployed? The male parts of the flower are the stamens and the anthers. → See also masculineSpecies and gendersCategories and varieties maleness
/-nəs/ noun [U] Species and gendersCategories and varieties
(Definition of male adjective (SEX) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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