FEMALE

Source: 553, 566, 567

female|feminine. (fr) female, feminine, the she in mankind, or other creatures.

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female. Female, n. the sex which bears yound

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Fe″male (?), n. [[OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L. femella, dim. of femina woman. See Feminine.]] 1. 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. 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.