female

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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
    

Noun

• a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

• an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  distaff , female person
• Antonyms: 
  androgynous , male , male person