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English Dictionary: female	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for female
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
female 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" Antonym(s): androgynous, male characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage" Synonym(s): female, distaff for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus" n an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) Antonym(s): male a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies Synonym(s): female, female person Antonym(s): male, male person
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. --Shak. 2. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. [bd]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. --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.