female

[fe·male]

The female animals are the ones who can have babies. They’re not males. Girls and women are female humans, but there are male and female animals of all kinds. Just ask Noah.

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An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

Noun
an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

Noun
a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

Adjective
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"

Adjective S.
for or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"

Adjective S.
characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"

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n.
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

n.
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

a.
Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.

a.
Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.

a.
Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.


Female

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.
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.

Female

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.
2. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. "Female usurpation.'b8
To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America.
3. (Bot.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.

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Usage Examples

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

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