Female /(?)/
Fe·male
Female
n.
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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.
The male and female of each living thing.
- A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (Bot.)
Female
a.
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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.
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Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America.
- Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. (Bot.)