Example sentences of "either male [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am very desirous to get all the species of this genus which I can , and am making observations on their flowers and fruit : for Doctor Linnaeus has joined these to his genus of Rhus [ sumach ] , with which all the species of Toxicodendron , which I have yet examined , will by no means agree ; for these are either male and female in distinct plants , or have male flowers in separate parts from the fruit on the same plant , which , according to his own system , must remove them to a great distance from the Rhus . |
| 2 | The birth weight of newborn infants , either male or female , first increases steeply with maternal age up to about age 25 years ( on the average by 300 grammes ) , then slower to about age 35 , when it reaches the zenith and , from this age , begins to decrease , continuing to the end of the childbearing ages . |
| 3 | We inherit attributes from a male and a female parent , but each of us is either male or female , not hermaphrodite . |
| 4 | A bisyllabic pet name could be either male or female , but a monosyllabic one is much more likely to be male . |
| 5 | ( To explain : some genetic conditions mostly occur in one sex , either male or female . |