Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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male | Yes | Yes | No | No |
masculine | Yes | Yes | No | No |
male (noun) | masculine (noun) |
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an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) | a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male |
a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies |
male (adjective) | masculine (adjective) |
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being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation | associated with men and not with women |
for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys | male (of grammatical gender) |
characteristic of a man | (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable |