FEMALE

/ˈfiː.meɪl/ ► audio Scrabble 11 Words With Friends 13

Definition

  1. noun an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa).
  2. noun a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies. — synonyms: female_person
  3. adjective being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop.
  4. adjective characteristic of or peculiar to a woman. — synonyms: distaff
  5. adjective for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls.

Examples

  • “female authors, the leading male and female artists, a female bird cooing at a male, intersex female patients, a trans female vlogger”
  • “stereotypically female pastimes, an insect with typically female coloration”
  • “the female chromosome;   estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, is produced by both females and males”

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