📖 Definitions of "Female"
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One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
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Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
"female authors, the leading male and female artists, a female bird cooing at a male, intersex female patients, a trans female vlogger"
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Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
"stereotypically female pastimes, an insect with typically female coloration"
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Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
"the female chromosome; estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, is produced by both females and males"
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(grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
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