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Male offspring   /meɪl ˈɔfsprˌɪŋ/   Listen
Male offspring

noun
1.
A child who is male.  Synonym: man-child.






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... explained by the principle of sexual selection. For instance, in most polygamous animals the males fight for the possession of the females, and the victors, always becoming the progenitors of the succeeding generation, impress upon their male offspring their own superior size, strength, or unusually developed offensive weapons. It is thus that we can account for the spurs and the superior strength and size of the males in Gallinaceous birds, and also for the large canine ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace

... that the male follows the precise type of the male parent, nor does the female always inherit the precise characteristics of the mother,—there is always a proportion of the female character in the male offspring, and of the male character in the female offspring. That must be quite plain to all of you who have looked at all attentively on your own children or those of your neighbours; you will have noticed how very often it may happen that the son ...
— The Perpetuation Of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission And Variation • Thomas H. Huxley



Words linked to "Male offspring" :   boy, kid, male, female offspring, child, male person, son



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