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Female

adjective

Being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop. "Female holly trees bear the berries"

Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman. Synonym: distaff. "Female suffrage"

For or pertaining to or composed of women or girls. "A female chorus"

noun

An animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa).

A person who belongs to the sex that can have babies. Synonym: female person.

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"Female" Quotes from Famous Books

... unfortunate lady's foul murder. The legend went on further to state that the white wraith of the innocent victim might be seen, on a certain night in the year, rising out of the misty spray of the waterfall: but as nobody except one very weak-witted female Jocelyn had ever seen the vision, the inhabitants of the house upon the crag had taken so little heed of the legend that the date of the anniversary had come ...

— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... There was a German stove in the corner made of pink porcelain, the rafters and roof were painted scarlet, the walls were of magenta distemper and the floor was blue. In the corner was a very large orange-coloured screen. The walls were hung with specimens of Irene's art, there was a stout female with no clothes on at all, whom it was impossible not to recognize as being Lucy; there were studies of fat legs and ample bosoms, and on the easel was a picture, evidently in process of completion, which represented a man. From this Miss Mapp instantly ...

— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson

... voice of a female in distress? Then 'tis a man's business to fly to her protection. [Dashes the ...

— John Bull - The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts • George Colman

... of the Established Church has long been a source of regret; and very efficient means have been adopted in various ways to remedy it. The sole object of the Clergy Daughters' School is to add, in its measure, to these means, by placing a good female education within reach of the poorest clergy. And by them the seasonable aid thus afforded has been duly appreciated. The anxiety and toil which necessarily attend the management of such an institution have been abundantly repaid by the ...

— Emily Bront • A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson

... also is not full, and I cannot imagine what Dr. Derby wants with the Female Academy on Vance Street. I will see him again, and now that he is the chief at Overton Hospital, I think he will not want the academy. Still, if he does, under your orders I will cause it to be vacated by the children and Sisters of Mercy. ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

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