| n. | 1. | An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. |
| 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. | |
| a. | 1. | Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. |
| 2. | Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; | |
| 3. | (Bot.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. | |
| (Pros.) double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. |
| Noun | 1. | female - an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) Antonyms: male - an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) |
| 2. | female - a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies Synonyms: female person Antonyms: male person, male - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies | |
| Adj. | 1. | female - 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" Antonyms: androgynous - having both male and female characteristics male - being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation; "a male infant"; "a male holly tree" |
| 2. | female - characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage" Synonyms: distaff | |
| 3. | female - for or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the play"; "a female chorus" |