Male embraced by one girl or another (6)
I believe the answer is:
amanda
'male' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'embraced by one girl or another' is the wordplay.
'embraced by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'one girl' becomes 'ada'.
'or another' becomes 'man' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ada' enclosing 'man' is 'AMANDA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for amanda that I've seen before include "Girl" , "F. name meaning lovable" , "Girl's name meaning lovable" .)