antifemale
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antifemale (comparative more antifemale, superlative most antifemale)
- Averse to, or acting against, females.
- Synonyms: gynophobic, misogynist, misogynous, womanhating
- 2009 September 6, “The Daughter Deficit”, in New York Times[1]:
- As Das Gupta reports, antifemale bias is stronger for later-born siblings.
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antifemale (plural antifemales)
- A genetic sequence that produces a non-feminine quality.
- 2018, Bentlee Salinas, Plant Cytogenetics, Breeding and Evolution, page 226:
- We [are] entering this new era in molecular biology of sex determination where it's a more subtle dosage of genes, some pro-males, some pro-females, some anti-males, some anti-females that all interplay with each other rather than a simply linear pathway of genes going one after the other.