Pertaining to the sex of human kind, and by extension to that of animals in general, that begets young, as distinguished from the female, which conceives and gives birth: as, a male child; a male beast, fish, or fowl.In botany, staminate: said of organs or flowers.Pertaining to or characteristic of males of the human kind, or men as opposed to women; appropriate to men; masculine: as, male attire; a male voice.Composed of males; made up of men and boys: as, a male choir.Possessing some quality or attribute considered as characteristic of males.Generative; fruitful, as an idea. In this sense, Bacon entitles one of his treatises the “Male Birth of Time.”n. One of the sex of human kind that begets young; a man or boy; by extension, and usually, one of the sex of any animal that begets young: opposed to female.n. In plants characterized by sexual differences and reproduced by sexual generation, that individual of which the special function is to form the substance essential to the fertility of the germ developed by the female.n. An obsolete form of mail.Bad; evil; wickedn. An apple.n. The knot, a sandpiper, Tringa canutus.n. The dandelion.n. See mal-.n. A ‘male’ precious stone. In the middle ages and until quite recent times, all the darker gems, such as sapphire, ruby, and topaz, were known as ‘male’ gems; the lighter blue, lighter red, or lighter yellow were called ‘female’ gems.