Female vs. Feminine

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.

Feminineadjective

Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.

Feminineadjective

Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.

Feminineadjective

Belonging to females; typically used by females.

Feminineadjective

Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.

Feminineadjective

(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

Femininenoun

That which is feminine.

Femininenoun

A woman.

Femininenoun

(grammar) The feminine gender.

Femininenoun

(grammar) A word of the feminine gender.

Feminineadjective

Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

Feminineadjective

Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate. (Pros.) See Female rhyme, under Female, a.

Femininenoun

a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female

Feminineadjective

associated with women and not with men;

Feminineadjective

of grammatical gender;

Feminineadjective

befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman;

Feminineadjective

(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable;