Meaning of FEMALE
| Pronunciation: | | 'feemeyl
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | distaff, egg-producing(a), female person, pistillate, young-bearing(a) |
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| | Antonyms: | | androgynous, male, male, male, male person | | |
| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | distaff, female being, feminine, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, her, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maidenly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, petticoat, she, womanish, womanlike, womanly |
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