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male genitalia

male genitalia

2 5.8
Parts on the outside of a man's body that are used to have children
  • noun
  • /meɪl dʒɛnɪˈteɪliə/
translation icon : genitales masculinos
  • Medical studies often focus on the health of male genitalia and its impact on fertility.
  • structure of the male genitalia
  • above male genitalia

I still want to change with the real little girls and expose my male genitalia to them.

Examples

  • Most males start to develop external male genitalia during puberty.

  • In many species, the size of the male genitalia plays a role in mating success.

  • Male genitalia are roughly 10 percent smaller today than they were 50 years ago.

    Blog text (15)

  • The signal detection task required subjects to press an event-marker button upon hearing terms that refer to the male genitalia.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Babies born with Klinefelter syndrome (47, XXY) have normal male genitalia.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Although these grasshoppers are all superficially alike, the male genitalia can be remarkably different, and these differences can be observed instantly with no equipment other than a microscope.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Scorpion flies get their name from their enlarged male genitalia, which curve back over the abdomen like a scorpion's stinger.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The genitalia of these babies are normal at birth and consonant with their chromosomes: XY males have normal male genitalia, and XX females have normal female genitalia.

    Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

male genitals
vsmale genitalia
1 3.5

The outside sexual parts of a male, like the penis and scrotum

is the general term for those external reproductive organs without listing parts

Surface Forms

male genitalia singular
male genitalia plural

Morphology

male + genitalia

The phrase is a literal adjectival modification where 'male' specifies the sex and 'genitalia' names external reproductive organs, so the combined meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. This is a transparent, descriptive construction that follows common cross-linguistic ADJ+NOUN composition and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.

Etymology

Male genitalia joins male, meaning 'a man', and genitalia, a word from Latin meaning 'parts used for birth'. So it refers to the body parts used to make babies, that is, 'the external reproductive organs of a male'.