| Pronunciation: | | 'feemeyl
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| Matching Terms: | | female aristocrat, female body, female bonding, female chest, female child, female fern, female genital organ, female genitalia, female genitals, female horse, female internal reproductive organ, female mammal, female monarch, female offspring, female parent, female person, female reproductive system, female rhymes, female sibling, femaleness, femalist, femalize
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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 |
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| | 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 |
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| 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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