[
US
/ˈfiˌmeɪɫ/
]
[ UK /fˈiːmeɪl/ ]
[ UK /fˈiːmeɪl/ ]
NOUN
- an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
- a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
ADJECTIVE
-
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 -
for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
the female lead in the play
a female chorus -
characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
female sensitiveness
female suffrage
How To Use female In A Sentence
- A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view. Very Little Drops Dead
- One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
- Interior spaces may also be gendered: the author explores both the activities particular to women, such as needlework or lace-making, and the objects related to female and maternal domesticity.
- So if the squid is associated with females and vaginae, and Doctor Manhattan is associated with penises, Watchmen Ending Changed? | /Film
- The female covers the eggs
- Results of this study show that females' greatest reported motivation for going to discos is to meet new people rather than to pursue sexual opportunities or to flirt.
- It is easy to tell when a female is ready to mate.
- But on the gender front, the sex ratio among children up to age 6 dropped to 914 girls for each 1,000 boys from 927 a decade ago, showing that female foeticide continues to be a widespread practice because of a traditional preference in some communities for boys. India Passes 1.2 Billion Mark
- NIAGARA FALLS -- A Niagara Falls English teacher has agreed to resign and surrender his teaching certification as part of a plea bargain to charges that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old female student. The Buffalo News: Home
- The scientists cannot say if the "hominin" was male or female, but adopted the name tag "X-woman" because the discovery was based on maternally inherited DNA. The Earth Times Online Newspaper