American English pronunciation
How to pronounce female
IPA transcription: ['fi,meɪl]
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Noun
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an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
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a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
Adjective
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being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
“a female heir”
“female holly trees bear the berries”
Adjective
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characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
“female sensitiveness”
“female suffrage”
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for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
“the female lead in the play”
“a female chorus”
Usage examples
- Like on "Fun House", there was an equal distribution of males and females.
- Instead, their membranes dissolve, leaving no barriers between the male and female chromosomes.
- Colonel Sarah Master - First female general for the union.
- The Twelfth Heaven is all Female and the Highest of all the Spiritual Realms.
- Mating is promiscuous; males chase females, and box to repel rivals.
- Bouman suggests that the female mourner could then be Hengist's famous daughter Renwein.
- The highest female voice.
- These conventions are regularly held and attract both male and female fans.
- Males and females will mate multiple times with many partners.
- Pennsylvania has never had a female speaker.