Usually means: Biological sex with XY chromosomes.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Male, male: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Male, male: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Male, male: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. male: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Male, male: Vocabulary.com
  6. Male, male, male-: Wordnik
  7. male: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. male: Wiktionary
  9. male: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. male: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. male: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Male-, male-: Dictionary.com
  13. male (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. male: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. MALE, Male (Foetus album), Male (Natalie Imbruglia album), Male (disambiguation), Male (film), Male (surname), Male: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Male-, Male: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. male, male-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. male: Rhymezone
  19. Male-, male, male: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. male: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. male, male-: MyWord.info
  22. Male: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. male, male-: Free Dictionary
  24. male: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Male-, Male: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. male: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. male: Dictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. male-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Male: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Male, male: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Male: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. male: Medical dictionary
  5. Male: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. MALE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. male: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. male: Natural History Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Male: Construction Glossary

(Note: See maleness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
adjective:  Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
adjective:  Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
adjective:  (of bacteria) Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
adjective:  (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
noun:  One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
noun:  A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
noun:  An animal of the sex that has testes.
noun:  A plant of the masculine sex.
noun:  A bacterium which has the F factor.
noun:  A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.
noun:  A surname.

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