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males

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males
  • alpha male - A domineering man; the dominant member in a group of males, especially animals.
  • kiva - In Native American Pueblo practices, an underground chamber used by the males for religious rites.
  • mixed voices - Voices of both males and females united in the same performance.
  • spanandry - Scarcity of males in a population.


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They generally are of two sorts; those composed almost entirely of females, and those mustering none but young vigorous males, or bulls, as they are familiarly designated.
It seemed from the messenger's tale that two of Gr-gr-gr's great males had been set upon by a half-dozen of Hooja's cutthroats while the former were peaceably returning from the thag hunt.
He had seen the thing fall upon Kerchak, and Tublat, and Terkoz; upon a dozen of the other mighty bull apes of his tribe; and upon Tantor, the elephant; there was scarce any of the males of the forest that did not at times fall prey to it.
 
 
 
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