Difference between male and phallocentrism and sheldrake and ridgeling

Definitions

adjective

1. being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
2. for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
3. characteristic of a man

noun

1. a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
2. an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

Examples

A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.

A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view.

One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today.

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noun

1. large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
2. Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill

Examples

Future, Present and Past Rieslings at Sheldrake Point Vineyard (May 31) Join winemaker David Breeden and taste rieslings from several vintages, including a preview of the unreleased 2008 rieslings and library wines that are no longer available anywhere else.

The paragraph in question had been in his article through galley proofs, which Sheldrake had seen and approved, but was somehow accidentally omitted in the layout process.

Sheldrake looked at Frank, his eyes narrowing and getting beadier.

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noun

1. a colt with undescended testicles

Examples

-- In the ridgeling animal one or both of the testicles have not descended into the scrotal sac, and are usually lodged in the inguinal canal or abdominal cavity.