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MaleChief atoll (pop., 2006: 92,555) and capital of the Maldives. Located in the centre of the Maldives, it comprises two groups of islets: North Male and South Male. It has central courts, a government hospital, an international airport, and public and private schools and is a trade and tourist centre. male 1. of, relating to, or designating the sex producing gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) 2. (of gametes) capable of fertilizing an egg cell in sexual reproduction 3. (of reproductive organs, such as a testis or stamen) capable of producing male gametes 4. (of flowers) bearing stamens but lacking a functional pistil 5. Electronics Mechanical engineering having a projecting part or parts that fit into a female counterpart How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude, but not old; who, upon any alarm, evinces his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his ladies. The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes. It cost him two more months to catch a male bird; he then shut them up together, and having about the beginning of the year 1673 obtained some eggs from them, he released the female, which, leaving the male behind to hatch the eggs in her stead, flew joyously to Dort, with the note under her wing. |
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