FEMALE
\fˈiːme͡ɪl], \fˈiːmeɪl], \f_ˈiː_m_eɪ_l]\
Definitions of FEMALE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
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a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
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for or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"
By Princeton University
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characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
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a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
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(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"
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for or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
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Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
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Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
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Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
By Noah Webster.
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A human being or animal of the sex which bears young; woman; the plant or flower which bears the pistil and receives the pollen of the male flower.
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Pertaining to that sex which produces young; feminine; womanly; having pistils without stamens.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Of the sex that produces young; pertaining to females; (bot.) having a pistil or fruit-bearing organ.
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One of the female sex.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Of or pertaining to the sex that brings forth young or produces ova; feminine.
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A person or animal of the female sex.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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In animals, the one that engenders and bears the young. It is, also, used adjectively ;-as, the Female Sex, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
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A woman.
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The sexual receiving element in nature that carries the organ for transmitting the energy of the new birth.
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Complementary part. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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