female

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. a. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. Source: opted

4. a. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. Source: opted

5. a. Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. Source: opted

6. adj. being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop Source: wordnet

7. adj. characteristic of or peculiar to a woman Source: wordnet

8. adj. for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls Source: wordnet

9. n. an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) Source: wordnet

10. n. a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

12. A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organswhich are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation orfertilization; a pistillate plant. Source: adambom

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