Definitions for female

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female fe·male

Spelling: [fee-meyl]

IPA: /ˈfi meɪl/

Female is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in female (aeeflm).

Definitions for female

noun

1. a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.
2. an organism of the sex or sexual phase that normally produces egg cells.
3. Botany. a pistillate plant.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or being a female animal or plant.
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of a female person; feminine:
3. composed of females:
4. Botany. designating or pertaining to a plant or its reproductive structure that produces or contains elements requiring fertilization. (of seed plants) pistillate.
5. Machinery. being or having a recessed part into which a corresponding part fits: Compare male (def 5).

Origin of female

1275-1325; Middle English, variant (by association with male) of femelle Anglo-French, Old French femel(l)e Latin fēmella, diminutive of fēmina woman (see Examples for female

This operation is performed by a female, with the aid of a stamp.

For my part, I cannot understand impoliteness in a Christian female.

“Jeffrey wanted me to tell you that you looked so pretty,” the female voice said into my disbelieving ear.

Many of them were black, and a good share were of the female sex.

Are the standards for female beauty in Hollywood ridiculous?

An escort who goes by the name of “Tommy” has experienced a wide variety of female clients.

While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.

But we female wimmen felt that we could not have it so any way.

female performers are frequently expected to drink with the patrons.

A male and female who do most of the mating dominate packs, and younger subordinates only breed occasionally.