Male

[meɪl] or [mel]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova).

(noun.) the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands.

(noun.) a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies.

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys; 'the male lead'; 'the male population' .

(adj.) characteristic of a man; 'a deep male voice'; 'manly sports' .

校對:罗赞--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Evil; wicked; bad.

(n.) Same as Mail, a bag.

(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.

(v. t.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.

(v. t.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.

(v. t.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir.

(v. t.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.

(n.) An animal of the male sex.

(n.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers.

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同義詞及近義詞：

a. He.

n. Male animal.

錄入:纳塔莉亚

解釋/意思:

adj. masculine: pertaining to the sex that begets (not bears) young: (bot.) bearing stamens.—n. one of the male sex: a he-animal: a stamen-bearing plant.—n. Male′-fern an elegant fern with the fronds growing in a crown.—Male order in architecture the Doric order; Male rhymes those in which only the final syllables correspond; Male screw a screw whose threads correspond to and enter the spiral grooves of the female screw.

n. (Spens.) mail armour.

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