maleless

English

male +‎ -less

maleless (not comparable)

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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