Difference between male and phallocentrism and sheldrake and ridgeling
Definitions
adjective
- being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
- for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
- characteristic of a man
noun
- a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
- 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.
If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating.
Definitions
noun
- large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
- Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill
Examples
The British Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake introduced the concepts of Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance in his revolutionary 1981 book A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation.
-- The _chakwâ_, male, and _chakwî_, female, is the ruddy goose or sheldrake, known to Europeans as the Brâhmanî duck, _Anas casarca_ or _Casarca rutila_.
Then her soul took the form of a sheldrake and its mate, -- those loving birds which, like the turtle-dove, are always constant, -- and floating on the liquid pools, they mourned all day long the sad fate of the Princess Pepperina.
Definitions
noun
- 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.
