Definitions

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  • noun A male with XYY syndrome.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ male

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Examples

  • The testing and development was done by a United Kingdom-based company which eventually created a fish called a genetically modified tilapia or "supermale".

    TrinidadExpress Today's News 2008

  • "It answered all the key issues we were then experiencing with the fish," said Weekes, noting that one major aspect of this genetically modified fish was that when a supermale mated with a regular female, the union produced only male offspring.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News 2008

  • How could this boy from Brooklyn, this New Yorker in heart and mind, this supermale with six marriages, this man whom the feminist Kate Millett called the quintessence of the heterosexual, macho pig — how could this man have chosen to live in a small town of 3,500 souls, most of them homosexuals, whose contribution to local culture consists (if I am to believe the waiter in the faux fisherman's restaurant where I wait till it's time for our interview) of a festival of sexy bodies, a week for leather enthusiasts, and a colloquium on the problems posed by adoption by same-sex couples?

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V) Bernard-Henri L 2005

  • How could this boy from Brooklyn, this New Yorker in heart and mind, this supermale with six marriages, this man whom the feminist Kate Millett called the quintessence of the heterosexual, macho pig — how could this man have chosen to live in a small town of 3,500 souls, most of them homosexuals, whose contribution to local culture consists (if I am to believe the waiter in the faux fisherman's restaurant where I wait till it's time for our interview) of a festival of sexy bodies, a week for leather enthusiasts, and a colloquium on the problems posed by adoption by same-sex couples?

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V) Bernard-Henri L 2005

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