1. female - Noun
2. female - Adjective
3. female - Adjective Satellite
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMan is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. Simone de Beauvoir
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. Christian Dior
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. Joan Rivers
A hundred male and a hundred female qualities make a perfect human being. Tibetan Proverb
Rather than an abatement of her viciousness, a witch gives birth to only female children and witchcraft multiplies . Yoruba Proverb
Gifts is the key to the female heart. Zimbabwe Proverb