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Mateless vs Maleless - What's the difference?

mateless | maleless |

As adjectives the difference between mateless and maleless

is that mateless is without a mate while maleless is devoid of males.

mateless

English

Adjective

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  • Without a mate

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    maleless

    English

    Adjective

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  • Devoid of males.
  • * 2004 , Ulf Hannerz, Soulside: inquiries into ghetto culture and community
    • In previous chapters we have indicated that husbandless households need not be maleless — many of them have boarders, others include a mother's brother.
  • * 2004 , Geoffrey A. Hammerson, Connecticut wildlife: biodiversity, natural history, and conservation
    • The small woolly females of this maleless species give rise to more females that feed by inserting their tubular mouthparts into the bark.

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