among zoologists, that sex of animals which has the parts of generation situated externally. See **Sex** and **Generation**.

The term male has also, from some similarity to that sex in animals, been applied to several inanimate things; thus we say, a male flower, a male screw, &c. See **Mas Plania**, **Masculus Flor**, and **Screw**; also **Female** and **Flos**.