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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

... cover of the clouds, while Karna remained visible, being surrounded by the rays of the Sun. And the son of Dhritarashtra stood by Karna, and Bharadwaja and Kripa and Bhishma remained with Partha. And the assembly was divided, as also the female spectators. And knowing the state of things, Kunti the daughter of Bhoja, swooned away. And by the help of female attendants, Vidura, versed in the lore of all duties, revived the insensible Kunti by sprinkling sandal-paste and water on her person. On being restored to consciousness, ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - Translated into English Prose - Adi Parva (First Parva, or First Book) • Kisari Mohan Ganguli (Translator)

... fancy-work, or draw, as I please. Thus, in one delightful, though somewhat monotonous course, my life is passed. I have been only out twice to tea since I came home. We are expecting company this afternoon, and on Tuesday next we shall have all the female teachers of the ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell

... sound of a melodious female voice speaking English fell on my ears. I looked around. A girl was bending over a book, and entertaining her father and mother by reading something of special interest and beauty. I listened and recognised some of my own sentences rendered into the speech of Shakespeare. These three were learning ...

— Legends of the Rhine • Wilhelm Ruland

... small size was situated over the sternum at the junction of the manubrium with the gladiolus, and a similar cyst in the neck near the left cornu of the hyoid bone. Chitten removed a dermoid from the sternum of a female of thirty-nine, the cyst containing 11 ounces of atheromatous material. In the Museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London there is a congenital tumor which was removed from the anterior mediastinum of a woman of twenty one, ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... a voluminous writer of indifferent novels; of which the best known is one called "Betsy Thoughtless." She was also authoress of a work entitled "The Female Spectator." - Mrs. Heywood was born in ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

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