FEMALE

Female

Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova . Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes.

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female

Noun

  1. One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
    1. A human member of the feminine sex or gender.
    2. An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
    3. A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

Adjective

  1. Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and many other species is typically the one which has XX chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).
  2. Belonging to the feminine (social) gender; identifying one's gender as feminine.
  3. Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
  4. Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.


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