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Definition of Males
1. male [n] - See also: male
Lexicographical Neighbors of Males
Literary usage of Males
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1909)
"Seven males and 4 females chose carbolic acid, 3 females chose chloroform, ...
Of the murders, 12 were males and 7 females. Eight males and 7 females were ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"Of the deaths 263 were in males, and 104 in females: 228 were in adults. ...
The number of deaths from dysentery was 371 : 194 being in males, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"placed with eleven similarly experienced non- injected Fafa males in an otherwise
identical breeding regimen conceived. Females with prior breeding ..."
4. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"With some species the males are believed to die soon after fertilising the ova.
With many species the males are of much smaller size than the females, ..."
5. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1914)
"Of the suicides, 6 males chose gunshot, 6 males hanging, 2 males cutting throat ;
19 chose carbolic acid, 15 males and 4 females ; 8 chose other poisons, ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"None of the nineteen control pairs produced white-eyed males. ... Of the fifteen
fertile rayed females, twelve produced one or more white-eyed males. ..."
7. The Lancet (1898)
"The total number of inquests held was 1033, including 640 males and 393 females.
Of legitimate infants under one year there were 110 males and 98 females ..."
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