(January 30, 2013 at 6:37 pm)TaraJo Wrote: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/masculine1a "male" above is itself a link, which goes to:
Masculine:
1
a : male
b : having qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man
2
: of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to males <masculine nouns>
3
a : having or occurring in a stressed final syllable <masculine rhyme>
b : having the final chord occurring on a strong beat <masculine cadence>
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/male
1a : a male person : a man or a boy
b : an individual that produces small usually motile gametes (as spermatozoa or spermatozoids) which fertilize the eggs of a female
This is a biological reference, so this doesn't answer the question.