Distaff vs. Female

Distaffnoun

A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.

Distaffnoun

The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.

Distaffnoun

Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.

Distaffnoun

A race for female horses only.

Distaffnoun

A woman, or women considered as a group.

Distaffadjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of women.

Distaffadjective

Of the maternal side of a family.

Distaffnoun

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

Distaffnoun

Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.

Distaffnoun

the sphere of work by women

Distaffnoun

the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning

Distaffadjective

characteristic of or peculiar to a woman;

Distaffnoun

a stick or spindle on to which wool or flax is wound for spinning.

Distaffnoun

of or concerning women

Distaff

A distaff (, , also called a rock) is a tool used in spinning. It is designed to hold the unspun fibers, keeping them untangled and thus easing the spinning process.

Femaleadjective

Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.

Femaleadjective

Characteristic of this sex/gender. feminine, womanly.}}

Femaleadjective

Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.

Femaleadjective

Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.

Femaleadjective

(figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

Femalenoun

One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.

Femalenoun

A human member of the feminine sex or gender.

Femalenoun

An animal of the sex that produces eggs.

Femalenoun

(botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

Femalenoun

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

Femalenoun

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

Femaleadjective

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

Femaleadjective

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

Femaleadjective

Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. (Pros.) double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.

Femalenoun

an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)

Femalenoun

a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

Femaleadjective

being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop;

Femaleadjective

characteristic of or peculiar to a woman;

Femaleadjective

for or composed of women or girls;

Female

Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces non-mobile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Female characteristics vary between different species with some species having pronounced female characteristics, such as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals.