Understanding the meaning of female

female

/'fimeɪl/

adjective
characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
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"female sensitiveness" "female suffrage"

Similar:

distaff feminine
noun
a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
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Similar:

female person

Opposite:

male

type of:
somebody individual person someone soul mortal
noun
an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
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Opposite:

male

type of:
creature fauna animate being brute beast animal
adjective
being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
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"a female heir" "female holly trees bear the berries"

Similar:

young-bearing egg-producing pistillate

Opposite:

androgynous male
adjective
for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
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"the female lead in the play" "a female chorus"

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