MALE OFFSPRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does male offspring mean? 

• MALE OFFSPRING (noun)
  The noun MALE OFFSPRING has 1 sense:

1. a child who is male

  Familiarity information: MALE OFFSPRING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALE OFFSPRING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A child who is male

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

male offspring; man-child

Hypernyms ("male offspring" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

child; kid (a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "male offspring"):

boy; son (a male human offspring)

Antonym:

female offspring (a child who is female)

 Context examples 

In the study, more than half of the male offspring mice developed significant increases in benign and malignant lung tumors at the two lower doses (50 ppb and 500 ppb).

(Low doses of arsenic cause cancer in male mice, NIH)