Thesaurus: female

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1. n. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
2. 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.
3. a. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
4. a. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
5. a. Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
6. adj. being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
7. adj. characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
8. adj. for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
9. n. an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
10. n. a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
11. 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. 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. "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.
12. A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organswhich are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation orfertilization; a pistillate plant.