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Pronunciation : Fe"male
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L. femella, dim. of femina woman. See Feminine.]
Definition : 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. The male and female of each living thing. Drayton.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Fe"male
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : 1. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. Shak.
2. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. "Female usurpation.'b8 Milton. To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America. Belknap.
3. (Bot.)
Defn: Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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