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Meaning of male

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  male
      adj 1: being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes
             (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in
             generation; "a male infant"; "a male holly tree" [ant:
             {androgynous}, {female}]
      2: characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports"
         [syn: {male}, {manful}, {manlike}, {manly}, {virile}]
      3: for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys; "the male
         lead"; "the male population"
      n 1: an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can
           fertilize female gametes (ova) [ant: {female}]
      2: a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies [syn:
         {male}, {male person}] [ant: {female}, {female person}]
      3: the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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