Definition of Adult male

1. Noun. An adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman). "There were two women and six men on the bus"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Adult Male

adulescents
adult-movie
adult-onset diabetes
adult-onset diabetes mellitus
adult-onset still's disease
adult T-cell leukaemia
adult T-cell lymphoma
adult body
adult education
adult female
adult female body
adult intelligence
adult lactase deficiency
adult male (current term)
adult male body
adult medulloepithelioma
adult movies
adult pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy
adult respiratory distress syndrome
adult rickets
adult third culture kid
adult third culture kids
adult tooth
adult tuberculosis
adulter
adulterant
adulterants

Literary usage of Adult male

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"Last seen August 17 — an adult male. Six noted August 12, appeared to be ... Last seen in 1905 was an adult male Oct. 5, and in 1904 two adult males Oct. 2. ..."

2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"... i, scales on leaves of acacia, natural size ; la, adult male, enlarged ; \k, scale of male, enlarged ; ic, scale of female, enlarged. ..."

3. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin (1898)
"of both sexes in their first plumage resemble the adult male. III. When the adult male resembles the adult female, the young of both sexes have a peculiar ..."

4. Catalogue of the Cases of Birds in the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton by Edward Thomas Booth (1901)
"The immature male and female were shot in Perthshire in 1867. The adult male in Inverness- shire in March, 1878.* See" Eough Notes," Vol. III., Plate 19. ..."

5. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin (1871)
"I. When the adult male is more beautiful or conspicuous than the adult female, the young of both sexes in their first plumage closely resemble the adult ..."

6. American Ornithology, Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Robert Jameson, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington (1831)
"313, adult male Blue Hawk, Edw. 5, p. 33, pi. 225. ZooL sp. 105. Lath. ... 101, adult male, South American Cayenne Si*ppl. female and young White-necked ..."

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