Female
Female , noun
[Old English femel, femal, French femelle, from Latin femella, dim. of femina woman. See Feminine.]
1.
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
The male and female of each living thing.
2.
(Botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
Female , adjective
1.
Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
As patient as the female dove
When that her golden couplets are disclosed.
2.
Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
Female usurpation.
To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America.
3.
(Botany) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree (strain, complain) is called a male rhyme; one in which the two final syllables of each verse agree, the last being short (motion, ocean), is called female.
The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character.