female
/'fi:meil/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Of or relating to the sex that produces ova or bears young: Used to describe animals, plants, or humans of the sex that can produce eggs or give birth.
- Characteristic of or belonging to women or girls: Pertaining to qualities, roles, or items traditionally associated with women.
- Having a hollow or recessed part designed to receive a corresponding projecting part (male part): Used in mechanics and engineering.
Noun:
- An individual of the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs: Refers to a woman, girl, or female animal.
- A plant that produces fruit after fertilization: A plant with pistils but no functional stamens.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- We adopted a female puppy from the shelter.
- The study focused on female athletes and their training regimens.
- Connect the female end of the cable to the port.
Noun:
- The female of the species is often responsible for caring for the young.
- The plant is a female and requires a nearby male plant for pollination.
Advanced Usage
"The female of the species": A phrase, often used in biology or figuratively, to refer to females in a general or representative way.
- The documentary highlighted how the female of the species is often the primary hunter.
In formal/biological contexts: Used precisely to denote sex based on reproductive function.
- The researchers collected eggs from the female Drosophila.
Variants and Related Words
- Feminine (adj): Having qualities or an appearance traditionally associated with women. (Note: This relates to gender attributes, not biological sex like "female").
- Femaleness (n): The state or condition of being female.
Synonyms
- Woman (n): An adult female human. (More specific to humans).
- Girl (n): A female child or young woman.
- Hen (n): A female bird, especially of a domestic fowl. (Specific to animals).
Antonyms
- Male (adj/n): Of or denoting the sex that produces small, typically motile gametes, especially spermatozoa, with which a female may be fertilized.
Related Phrases/Idioms
- The fairer sex: A traditional, sometimes poetic, term for women. (Note: This is an idiom, not a direct synonym for "female").
- Female counterpart: A woman or female thing that corresponds to a man or male thing.
- She met her female counterpart from the partnering company.
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)