About The Word Female
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What's The Definition Of Female?
[n] an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
[n] a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies [adj] (biology) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop; "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the berries" [adj] for or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus" [adj] characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage" Synonyms | Synonyms for Female: distaff | egg-producing(a) | female person | pistillate | young-bearing(a) Related Terms | Find terms related to Female: distaff | female being | feminine | gentlewomanlike | girlish | gynecic | gynecoid | gynic | her | kittenish | ladylike | little-girlish | maidenly | matronal | matronlike | matronly | muliebral | petticoat | she | womanish | womanlike | womanly See Also | adult female | animal | animate being | beast | brute | creature | dam | fauna | female body | female child | female offspring | feminine | foster-sister | girl | hen | human | individual | little girl | mortal | person | somebody | someone | soul | woman Female In Webster's Dictionary \Fe"male\, n. [OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L.
femella, dim. of femina woman. See {Feminine}.]
1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth
young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and
produces ova.
The male and female of each living thing. --Drayton.
2. (Bot.) A plant which produces only that kind of
reproductive organs which are capable of developing into
fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate
plant.
\Fe"male\, a. 1. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. --Shak. 2. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. ``Female usurpation.'b8 --Milton. To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America. --Belknap. 3. (Bot.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. |
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