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Definition of Female
Female

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

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

Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.

Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

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Female Quotations

I have a lot of female fans.
Lita Ford

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.
Shannon Elizabeth

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
Joan D. Vinge

Female Translations

female in Afrikaans is vroulik
female in Danish is kvindelig
female in Dutch is wijfje, vrouwtje
female in French is femelle
female in German is Buchse, weiblich
female in Norwegian is kvinnelig, hunn, kvinne
female in Spanish is feminino, hembra
female in Swedish is kvinnlig, hona, fruntimmerkvinna


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