Female

Female - Other Definitions

• (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.
  
  
• rhymes () double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.
  
  
• fern () a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.