Definition of female
- n. - An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth
young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
- 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.
- a. - Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to
young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
- a. - Belonging to an individual of the female sex;
characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
- a. - Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in
cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.