Female

·adj Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.

II. Female ·adj Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

III. Female ·adj Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.

IV. Female ·noun An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

V. Female ·noun A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.