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Meaning of 'female' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Female [ a.]
- Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
- Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
- Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
2 . Female [ n.]
- An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
- A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

Meaning of 'female' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . female [ a]
Meaning (1):
- being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
Example in sentence:
  • a female heir;
  • female holly trees bear the berries
2 . female [ s]
Meaning (2):
- for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
Example in sentence:
  • a female chorus;
  • the female lead in the play
Meaning (3):
- characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
Example in sentence:
  • female sensitiveness;
  • female suffrage

Nearby Words:

female fern female rhymes femalist femalize feme femeral femerell feminal feminality feminate

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