Female
['fiːmeɪl] or ['fimel]
Definition
(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.
(adj.) 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 pertaining to 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' .
Checked by Laurie--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Rudolph
Definition
adj. of the sex that produces young: pertaining to females: (bot.) having a pistil or fruit-bearing organ.—n. one of the female sex a woman.—ns. Femal′ity Feminal′ity the female nature.—adj. Fem′inal.—n. Feminē′ity the quality of being female.—adj. Fem′inine pertaining to women: tender: womanly: (gram.) the gender denoting females.—adv. Fem′ininely.—ns. Fem′inineness; Feminin′ity the nature of the female sex.—Female screw a screw cut upon the inward surface of a cylindrical hole in wood or metal; Feminine rhyme a rhyme between words that terminate each in an unaccented syllable.
Typist: Portia
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One of the opposing or unfair sex.
Inputed by Byron
Examples
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For your sake, turning to Charlotte, I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The whole staff of instructors, male and female, he set aside, and stood on the examiner's estrade alone. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At length, however, a window opened, and a female voice called to him,-- Eh, bien! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- On another occasion when reconnoitring thus she beheld two female figures walking in the vale. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Those who are showing the world what female manners _should_ be, said Mr. Bertram gallantly, are doing a great deal to set them right. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Sarkoja was at this time Tars Tarkas' oldest and most trusted female. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In my own neighbourhood, no virtuous female friends would tempt me into dangerous gossiping at the tea-table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They continued radiant in their easy female transcendancy, beautiful to look at. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I would not change you for the clearest-headed, longest-sighted, best-judging female breathing. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine, was hardly known to him, or to the generality of people, by name. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Here, too, the bride's aunt and next relation; a widowed female of a Medusa sort, in a stoney cap, glaring petrifaction at her fellow-creatures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Neither must they represent slaves, male or female, performing the offices of slaves? Plato. The Republic.
- It seemed to me that I was this dayespecially doomed--the main burden and trial falling on me alone of all the female teachers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This latter fact is well exemplified in the state of the wings of female moths belonging to the same family. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Opening the door, he spoke a few words quickly but quietly to two females who ran to meet him in the passage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The females and young squatted in a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them ranged the adult males. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At a signal from Dak Kova the doors of two cages were thrown open and a dozen green Martian females were driven to the center of the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They were four in number, two males and two females. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The other occupants of the room, five in number, were all females, and they were still sleeping, piled high with a motley array of silks and furs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But, in a corner, sitting apart from the rest, are two females of a more interesting appearance than common. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No, he said, they share alike; the only difference between them is that the males are stronger and the females weaker. Plato. The Republic.
- We met baggage waggons, and many females of high and low rank returning to Fairy or Kishan, there to wait the issue of the expected day. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Between five and six thousand work people were employed, the greater part of whom were females, and it was necessary to use steam and water motors, to the extent of many hundred horse power. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With animals having separated sexes, there will be in most cases a struggle between the males for the possession of the females. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The other, however, dealt a single blow with his cruel tail that laid both of the females crushed corpses upon the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Among them moved red and white females serving their every want. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Before the drum sat three old females, each armed with a knotted branch fifteen or eighteen inches in length. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At this moment we came in close contact with some females whose language made our blood run cold. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They make the powder, the cartridges, the firearms; in fact everything of value is produced by the females. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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