Definition of female in English:

female

adjective ˈfiːmeɪlˈfiˌmeɪl

1Of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes.
雌性的
a herd of female deer
一群母鹿。
Example sentencesExamples
- Critics were divided neatly by age and sex, with almost all the female film correspondents and virtually everyone under the age of 35 loving the film.
- Put simply, inserting a senior female police officer into an investigation was shown to spoil neither investigation nor genre.
- There have been cases of female animals ‘adopting’ motherless young ones of other species.
- Incidentally, practically all lamb and pork comes from female animals but, with beef, a good steer is as good as a good cow.
- She's Canadian and was one of the first female foreign correspondents on Canadian television.
- His laughter trailed behind her as he went to a fitting with another female worker, but she was not very attractive.
- Infested berries will have a discoloured area where the egg was inserted by the female fly.
- Manufacturing wages for female workers range as low as 12 cents to 30 cents per hour.
- I wanted to be the first ever female cricket correspondent of the Times.
- A female correspondent to this magazine once claimed that it was not.
- It was also considered a suitable name for a female crocodile.
- The embryos were then inserted into female mice that gave birth to mice with this genetic defect.
- An unusual hybrid has been reported by veterinarians in Botswana - the offspring of a female goat and a male sheep.
- Whether he slept with any of his female correspondents we do not know.
- Traditionally, male babies were valued much more highly than female offspring.
- She was the first female apprentice toolmaker employed by the company.
- The weight for both male and female polar bears has declined, and female bears are having fewer cubs.
- When breeding in the summer the male fertilizes the adult female starfish which then discharges up to twenty million eggs into the sea.
- Like other mammals, female mice manufacture prenatally all the eggs they will ever have.
- There is no one-size-fits-all explanation for female infidelity among animals.
1. 1.1 Relating to or characteristic of women or female animals.
  女（性）的；女性特有的；雌性动物（特有）的
  a female audience
  女观众。
  female names
  女子名。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I nearly dozed, although I did notice a surprising amount of female laughter in the audience.
  We are not inducing female sex characteristics at that age.
  Most reproductions of the work are from a later alteration that obscured her obvious female characteristics.
  I don't know whether there was a corresponding list of stereotypical female faults.
  I'm willing to bet that Dido's audience is almost exclusively female, to an unusual degree in pop artists.
  Dashed and nondashed lines represent male and female life cycles, respectively.
  So, they're really marketing to a lot more of the female audience now.
  Both are female-orientated, with strong female casts and a predominantly female audience.
  Interestingly, she was named after her father who wanted his daughter to have a female version of his name.
  I suppose my main gripe is the gender politics of this show, which I'm assuming is targeting a mainly female audience.
  Women have two ovaries in their wombs and are the major source of female hormones, manufacturing oestrogen and progesterone.
  He's begun hormone treatment, has adopted a female name, and hopes to undergo surgery within the next two years.
  Beauty isn't, of course, characteristic only of the female form.
  Thus, it seems logical for a correlation to exist between male and female fertility traits.
  The baby boomer audience, mainly female, hung on his every note, nuance and gesture.
  A practical move that gave us a pretty female name with a romantic touch to balance the tough masculine environment.
  What I didn't expect to see was how amused the predominantly white female studio audience was with these clowns.
  What's the dumbest female name you can think of?
  And we have to say that the fashions on-show on the catwalk and in the mainly female audience were mouth watering.
  If it's not that, I think it must be a biological improvement in female fertility.
  Synonyms
  feminine, womanly, womanlike, ladylike
  she-, to do with women
  pretty, graceful, delicate, gentle
  archaic feminal
2. 1.2 (of a plant or flower) having a pistil but no stamens.
  （植物）雌性的；（花）雌蕊的
  Example sentencesExamples
  This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clusters.
  If the goal is to just reduce the overall number of trees and stop further spreading, cut female trees only.
  Male flowers are pale yellow, whereas female flowers are white; inflorescences of both sexes are similar in size.
  While in the bloom, they mate, feed, and brush pollen onto female flowers.
  The female flowers mature in late summer and are used to add bitterness, favor, and aroma to beer.
  Male and hermaphroditic flowers are slightly larger and a brighter yellow than female flowers.
  The male flowers are on the tassels at the top of the plant; the female flowers form the silk that hangs out of the developing ears.
  Male flowers are at the top of the spike and female flowers at the base.
  It is grown to produce the narcotic drugs hashish and marijuana, made primarily from its female flowers.
  The female flower sits closer to the vine and has a swollen embryonic fruit at its base.
  However, the size distribution of male and female trees broadly overlapped.
  That's because the female flower is a small terminal spike on the end of the current season's growth.
  If the flower is female and comes with a small courgette attached, deep fry it.
  Planting female trees in one's own yard will attract and then trap incoming airborne pollen from males of their own species.
  Under field conditions small plants are often male, with production of both male and female flowers increasing with plant size.
  One male date palm can produce enough pollen for 49 female trees.
  Unpollinated ovaries were prepared by bagging the female flowers before anthesis.
  The female tree is the best for the home garden, as they are the best fruit bearer.
  Nearby, male nutmeg trees are planted next to the blooming female trees with the red laced nutmeg peeking out of their ripe yellow pods.
  There are male and female flowers on different plants.
3. 1.3 (of parts of machinery, fittings, etc.) manufactured hollow so that a corresponding male part can be inserted.
  （机器的部件、附件等）阴的，凹的，内孔的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The tubing seat in the female fitting has a 42-degree taper.
  A basket holds the coil of roofing nails and adjusts for different nails If you incorrectly install a female fitting on a nailer or stapler.

noun ˈfiːmeɪlˈfiˌmeɪl

A female person, animal, or plant.
女子；雌性动物；雌性植物，雌株
Example sentencesExamples
- It also occurs in females, particularly when they need to defend their young.
- This can be easily done in very thin females but is more difficult in heavier women.
- Figures show that women in Glasgow will die earlier than females anywhere else in Britain.
- The life cycle begins as the adult female lays its eggs while burrowing into the skin.
- This is more frequent in teenage boys than girls but is increasing among young females in my experience.
- The cubs are cared for by all the females in the pride, and will suckle from other females as well as from their mother.
- The sharks stay as late as December some years, before the females head north into Mozambique.
- The females manoeuvre for position in the middle of the shoal - with the biggest in the centre.
- It is the females that inflict the bite to extract the blood they need to assist the production of their eggs.
- Most of my key operational females have no childcare responsibilities at all.
- This system of marking the females is still used at all levels of society.
- The chromosome from the father determines whether the offspring becomes male or female.
- However, the sexual objectification of females is not confined to pornography.
- Biological differentiation into male and female makes sexual reproduction possible.
- There is also some sage advice for females wanting to break into what is still essentially a male domain.
- The females enter the spawning bays a few days later and spawning normally occurs around dawn and dusk.
- When the females arrive they rest up in deeper water until conditions are perfect for spawning.
- Everyone young and old, male and female bore this mark in the same place.
- For moss sperm, attempts at fertilizing the female of the species may be doomed before they even begin.
- This may give females a particularly large benefit from reallocating paternal expenses.
Synonyms
woman, lady, member of the fair sex, member of the gentle sex

Phrases

the female of the species

humorous Women or a woman.
it was one of those subtle hints that the female of the species sometimes use
Example sentencesExamples
- You can distinguish the female of the species by her exposed cleavage and teetering walk.
- There have been reports of dozens of roses, love letters and chocolates wooing the female of the species.
- The female of the species is fast losing its claim to being the fairer sex.
- The men come with a use-by date and duly depart leaving the stage - and the beach - to the female of the species.
- You recognize a mating ritual of a man trying to assert his own among the female of the species.
- I do not want to lose my right to be a democrat, I do not want to see the female of the species declassified.
- The female of the species are supposed to be tough nuts.
- The female of the species did even better then, with their portfolios actually growing by 2 %.
- The striking thing is how most discussions on looks - or lack of them - centre on the female of the species.
- Acknowledge that needlework is no longer the preserve of the female of the species.

Derivatives

femaleness

noun

In the course of offering us these products, they fortify these notions of femaleness.
Example sentencesExamples
- The arresting part of this photo is not her femaleness, although foregrounding her gender seems to be the intention, but the condition of her gun, which is old, chipped, and rusty.
- The concept for this exhibition came from the Celtic pagan festival that celebrated the femaleness of things.
- He cross-dresses for the ‘feeling’ of being a woman and in order to assume the emotions and behaviours associated with femaleness, not for any erotic reasons or compulsions.
- For years I wasn't into wearing anything ‘sexy’, feeling that I would just be perpetuating a sexist objectified view of femaleness that was shoved down my throat via the covers of magazines.
Synonyms
lady, girl, member of the fair sex, member of the gentle sex, female

Origin

Middle English: from Old French femelle, from Latin femella, diminutive of femina 'a woman'. The change in the ending was due to association with male, but the words male and female are not linked etymologically.

The spelling of female changed in the Middle Ages to match male, which is a quite different word. Female came via Old French femelle from Latin femella, which was a diminutive form of femina ‘woman’ source also of feminine (Late Middle English), whereas male (Late Middle English) is based on Latin masculus, from mas ‘a male person’. See also chauvinism, macho. The saying the female of the species is more deadly than the male comes originally from the 1911 poem ‘The Female of the Species’ by Rudyard Kipling. Whether the animal in question is a cobra, a she-bear, or a woman, the warning of where the greatest danger lies is the same, ‘For the female of the species is more deadly than the male’.

Rhymes

Definition of female in US English:

female

adjectiveˈfēˌmālˈfiˌmeɪl

1Of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes.
雌性的
a herd of female deer
一群母鹿。
Example sentencesExamples
- Whether he slept with any of his female correspondents we do not know.
- Infested berries will have a discoloured area where the egg was inserted by the female fly.
- There have been cases of female animals ‘adopting’ motherless young ones of other species.
- Critics were divided neatly by age and sex, with almost all the female film correspondents and virtually everyone under the age of 35 loving the film.
- When breeding in the summer the male fertilizes the adult female starfish which then discharges up to twenty million eggs into the sea.
- A female correspondent to this magazine once claimed that it was not.
- The embryos were then inserted into female mice that gave birth to mice with this genetic defect.
- I wanted to be the first ever female cricket correspondent of the Times.
- The weight for both male and female polar bears has declined, and female bears are having fewer cubs.
- It was also considered a suitable name for a female crocodile.
- Manufacturing wages for female workers range as low as 12 cents to 30 cents per hour.
- She's Canadian and was one of the first female foreign correspondents on Canadian television.
- His laughter trailed behind her as he went to a fitting with another female worker, but she was not very attractive.
- Put simply, inserting a senior female police officer into an investigation was shown to spoil neither investigation nor genre.
- An unusual hybrid has been reported by veterinarians in Botswana - the offspring of a female goat and a male sheep.
- Like other mammals, female mice manufacture prenatally all the eggs they will ever have.
- There is no one-size-fits-all explanation for female infidelity among animals.
- Incidentally, practically all lamb and pork comes from female animals but, with beef, a good steer is as good as a good cow.
- Traditionally, male babies were valued much more highly than female offspring.
- She was the first female apprentice toolmaker employed by the company.
1. 1.1 Relating to or characteristic of women or female animals.
  女（性）的；女性特有的；雌性动物（特有）的
  a female audience
  女观众。
  a female name
  女子名。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dashed and nondashed lines represent male and female life cycles, respectively.
  And we have to say that the fashions on-show on the catwalk and in the mainly female audience were mouth watering.
  What I didn't expect to see was how amused the predominantly white female studio audience was with these clowns.
  Interestingly, she was named after her father who wanted his daughter to have a female version of his name.
  We are not inducing female sex characteristics at that age.
  I nearly dozed, although I did notice a surprising amount of female laughter in the audience.
  I'm willing to bet that Dido's audience is almost exclusively female, to an unusual degree in pop artists.
  What's the dumbest female name you can think of?
  He's begun hormone treatment, has adopted a female name, and hopes to undergo surgery within the next two years.
  I suppose my main gripe is the gender politics of this show, which I'm assuming is targeting a mainly female audience.
  Both are female-orientated, with strong female casts and a predominantly female audience.
  I don't know whether there was a corresponding list of stereotypical female faults.
  The baby boomer audience, mainly female, hung on his every note, nuance and gesture.
  If it's not that, I think it must be a biological improvement in female fertility.
  Most reproductions of the work are from a later alteration that obscured her obvious female characteristics.
  Beauty isn't, of course, characteristic only of the female form.
  So, they're really marketing to a lot more of the female audience now.
  Thus, it seems logical for a correlation to exist between male and female fertility traits.
  A practical move that gave us a pretty female name with a romantic touch to balance the tough masculine environment.
  Women have two ovaries in their wombs and are the major source of female hormones, manufacturing oestrogen and progesterone.
  Synonyms
  feminine, womanly, womanlike, ladylike
2. 1.2 (of a plant or flower) having a pistil but no stamens.
  （植物）雌性的；（花）雌蕊的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Male and hermaphroditic flowers are slightly larger and a brighter yellow than female flowers.
  Under field conditions small plants are often male, with production of both male and female flowers increasing with plant size.
  The female flowers mature in late summer and are used to add bitterness, favor, and aroma to beer.
  One male date palm can produce enough pollen for 49 female trees.
  The female tree is the best for the home garden, as they are the best fruit bearer.
  If the flower is female and comes with a small courgette attached, deep fry it.
  While in the bloom, they mate, feed, and brush pollen onto female flowers.
  It is grown to produce the narcotic drugs hashish and marijuana, made primarily from its female flowers.
  There are male and female flowers on different plants.
  The male flowers are on the tassels at the top of the plant; the female flowers form the silk that hangs out of the developing ears.
  However, the size distribution of male and female trees broadly overlapped.
  The female flower sits closer to the vine and has a swollen embryonic fruit at its base.
  Nearby, male nutmeg trees are planted next to the blooming female trees with the red laced nutmeg peeking out of their ripe yellow pods.
  Unpollinated ovaries were prepared by bagging the female flowers before anthesis.
  This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clusters.
  Planting female trees in one's own yard will attract and then trap incoming airborne pollen from males of their own species.
  Male flowers are pale yellow, whereas female flowers are white; inflorescences of both sexes are similar in size.
  Male flowers are at the top of the spike and female flowers at the base.
  That's because the female flower is a small terminal spike on the end of the current season's growth.
  If the goal is to just reduce the overall number of trees and stop further spreading, cut female trees only.
3. 1.3 (of parts of machinery, fittings, etc.) manufactured hollow so that a corresponding male part can be inserted.
  （机器的部件、附件等）阴的，凹的，内孔的
  Example sentencesExamples
  A basket holds the coil of roofing nails and adjusts for different nails If you incorrectly install a female fitting on a nailer or stapler.
  The tubing seat in the female fitting has a 42-degree taper.

nounˈfēˌmālˈfiˌmeɪl

A female person, animal, or plant.
女子；雌性动物；雌性植物，雌株
Example sentencesExamples
- This system of marking the females is still used at all levels of society.
- The females enter the spawning bays a few days later and spawning normally occurs around dawn and dusk.
- When the females arrive they rest up in deeper water until conditions are perfect for spawning.
- Biological differentiation into male and female makes sexual reproduction possible.
- This is more frequent in teenage boys than girls but is increasing among young females in my experience.
- This may give females a particularly large benefit from reallocating paternal expenses.
- The chromosome from the father determines whether the offspring becomes male or female.
- It also occurs in females, particularly when they need to defend their young.
- For moss sperm, attempts at fertilizing the female of the species may be doomed before they even begin.
- Most of my key operational females have no childcare responsibilities at all.
- The cubs are cared for by all the females in the pride, and will suckle from other females as well as from their mother.
- Figures show that women in Glasgow will die earlier than females anywhere else in Britain.
- The females manoeuvre for position in the middle of the shoal - with the biggest in the centre.
- There is also some sage advice for females wanting to break into what is still essentially a male domain.
- However, the sexual objectification of females is not confined to pornography.
- The life cycle begins as the adult female lays its eggs while burrowing into the skin.
- It is the females that inflict the bite to extract the blood they need to assist the production of their eggs.
- The sharks stay as late as December some years, before the females head north into Mozambique.
- This can be easily done in very thin females but is more difficult in heavier women.
- Everyone young and old, male and female bore this mark in the same place.
Synonyms
woman, lady, member of the fair sex, member of the gentle sex

Origin

Middle English: from Old French femelle, from Latin femella, diminutive of femina ‘a woman’. The change in the ending was due to association with male, but the words male and female are not linked etymologically.

词汇	female
释义	Definition of female in English: female adjective ˈfiːmeɪlˈfiˌmeɪl 1Of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes. 雌性的 a herd of female deer 一群母鹿。 Example sentencesExamples Critics were divided neatly by age and sex, with almost all the female film correspondents and virtually everyone under the age of 35 loving the film. Put simply, inserting a senior female police officer into an investigation was shown to spoil neither investigation nor genre. There have been cases of female animals ‘adopting’ motherless young ones of other species. Incidentally, practically all lamb and pork comes from female animals but, with beef, a good steer is as good as a good cow. She's Canadian and was one of the first female foreign correspondents on Canadian television. His laughter trailed behind her as he went to a fitting with another female worker, but she was not very attractive. Infested berries will have a discoloured area where the egg was inserted by the female fly. Manufacturing wages for female workers range as low as 12 cents to 30 cents per hour. I wanted to be the first ever female cricket correspondent of the Times. A female correspondent to this magazine once claimed that it was not. It was also considered a suitable name for a female crocodile. The embryos were then inserted into female mice that gave birth to mice with this genetic defect. An unusual hybrid has been reported by veterinarians in Botswana - the offspring of a female goat and a male sheep. Whether he slept with any of his female correspondents we do not know. Traditionally, male babies were valued much more highly than female offspring. She was the first female apprentice toolmaker employed by the company. The weight for both male and female polar bears has declined, and female bears are having fewer cubs. When breeding in the summer the male fertilizes the adult female starfish which then discharges up to twenty million eggs into the sea. Like other mammals, female mice manufacture prenatally all the eggs they will ever have. There is no one-size-fits-all explanation for female infidelity among animals. 1.1 Relating to or characteristic of women or female animals. 女（性）的；女性特有的；雌性动物（特有）的 a female audience 女观众。 female names 女子名。 Example sentencesExamples I nearly dozed, although I did notice a surprising amount of female laughter in the audience. We are not inducing female sex characteristics at that age. Most reproductions of the work are from a later alteration that obscured her obvious female characteristics. I don't know whether there was a corresponding list of stereotypical female faults. I'm willing to bet that Dido's audience is almost exclusively female, to an unusual degree in pop artists. Dashed and nondashed lines represent male and female life cycles, respectively. So, they're really marketing to a lot more of the female audience now. Both are female-orientated, with strong female casts and a predominantly female audience. Interestingly, she was named after her father who wanted his daughter to have a female version of his name. I suppose my main gripe is the gender politics of this show, which I'm assuming is targeting a mainly female audience. Women have two ovaries in their wombs and are the major source of female hormones, manufacturing oestrogen and progesterone. He's begun hormone treatment, has adopted a female name, and hopes to undergo surgery within the next two years. Beauty isn't, of course, characteristic only of the female form. Thus, it seems logical for a correlation to exist between male and female fertility traits. The baby boomer audience, mainly female, hung on his every note, nuance and gesture. A practical move that gave us a pretty female name with a romantic touch to balance the tough masculine environment. What I didn't expect to see was how amused the predominantly white female studio audience was with these clowns. What's the dumbest female name you can think of? And we have to say that the fashions on-show on the catwalk and in the mainly female audience were mouth watering. If it's not that, I think it must be a biological improvement in female fertility. Synonyms feminine, womanly, womanlike, ladylike she-, to do with women pretty, graceful, delicate, gentle archaic feminal 1.2 (of a plant or flower) having a pistil but no stamens. （植物）雌性的；（花）雌蕊的 Example sentencesExamples This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clusters. If the goal is to just reduce the overall number of trees and stop further spreading, cut female trees only. Male flowers are pale yellow, whereas female flowers are white; inflorescences of both sexes are similar in size. While in the bloom, they mate, feed, and brush pollen onto female flowers. The female flowers mature in late summer and are used to add bitterness, favor, and aroma to beer. Male and hermaphroditic flowers are slightly larger and a brighter yellow than female flowers. The male flowers are on the tassels at the top of the plant; the female flowers form the silk that hangs out of the developing ears. Male flowers are at the top of the spike and female flowers at the base. It is grown to produce the narcotic drugs hashish and marijuana, made primarily from its female flowers. The female flower sits closer to the vine and has a swollen embryonic fruit at its base. However, the size distribution of male and female trees broadly overlapped. That's because the female flower is a small terminal spike on the end of the current season's growth. If the flower is female and comes with a small courgette attached, deep fry it. Planting female trees in one's own yard will attract and then trap incoming airborne pollen from males of their own species. Under field conditions small plants are often male, with production of both male and female flowers increasing with plant size. One male date palm can produce enough pollen for 49 female trees. Unpollinated ovaries were prepared by bagging the female flowers before anthesis. The female tree is the best for the home garden, as they are the best fruit bearer. Nearby, male nutmeg trees are planted next to the blooming female trees with the red laced nutmeg peeking out of their ripe yellow pods. There are male and female flowers on different plants. 1.3 (of parts of machinery, fittings, etc.) manufactured hollow so that a corresponding male part can be inserted. （机器的部件、附件等）阴的，凹的，内孔的 Example sentencesExamples The tubing seat in the female fitting has a 42-degree taper. A basket holds the coil of roofing nails and adjusts for different nails If you incorrectly install a female fitting on a nailer or stapler. noun ˈfiːmeɪlˈfiˌmeɪl A female person, animal, or plant. 女子；雌性动物；雌性植物，雌株 Example sentencesExamples It also occurs in females, particularly when they need to defend their young. This can be easily done in very thin females but is more difficult in heavier women. Figures show that women in Glasgow will die earlier than females anywhere else in Britain. The life cycle begins as the adult female lays its eggs while burrowing into the skin. This is more frequent in teenage boys than girls but is increasing among young females in my experience. The cubs are cared for by all the females in the pride, and will suckle from other females as well as from their mother. The sharks stay as late as December some years, before the females head north into Mozambique. The females manoeuvre for position in the middle of the shoal - with the biggest in the centre. It is the females that inflict the bite to extract the blood they need to assist the production of their eggs. Most of my key operational females have no childcare responsibilities at all. This system of marking the females is still used at all levels of society. The chromosome from the father determines whether the offspring becomes male or female. However, the sexual objectification of females is not confined to pornography. Biological differentiation into male and female makes sexual reproduction possible. There is also some sage advice for females wanting to break into what is still essentially a male domain. The females enter the spawning bays a few days later and spawning normally occurs around dawn and dusk. When the females arrive they rest up in deeper water until conditions are perfect for spawning. Everyone young and old, male and female bore this mark in the same place. For moss sperm, attempts at fertilizing the female of the species may be doomed before they even begin. This may give females a particularly large benefit from reallocating paternal expenses. Synonyms woman, lady, member of the fair sex, member of the gentle sex Phrases the female of the species humorous Women or a woman. it was one of those subtle hints that the female of the species sometimes use Example sentencesExamples You can distinguish the female of the species by her exposed cleavage and teetering walk. There have been reports of dozens of roses, love letters and chocolates wooing the female of the species. The female of the species is fast losing its claim to being the fairer sex. The men come with a use-by date and duly depart leaving the stage - and the beach - to the female of the species. You recognize a mating ritual of a man trying to assert his own among the female of the species. I do not want to lose my right to be a democrat, I do not want to see the female of the species declassified. The female of the species are supposed to be tough nuts. The female of the species did even better then, with their portfolios actually growing by 2 %. The striking thing is how most discussions on looks - or lack of them - centre on the female of the species. Acknowledge that needlework is no longer the preserve of the female of the species. Derivatives femaleness noun In the course of offering us these products, they fortify these notions of femaleness. Example sentencesExamples The arresting part of this photo is not her femaleness, although foregrounding her gender seems to be the intention, but the condition of her gun, which is old, chipped, and rusty. The concept for this exhibition came from the Celtic pagan festival that celebrated the femaleness of things. He cross-dresses for the ‘feeling’ of being a woman and in order to assume the emotions and behaviours associated with femaleness, not for any erotic reasons or compulsions. For years I wasn't into wearing anything ‘sexy’, feeling that I would just be perpetuating a sexist objectified view of femaleness that was shoved down my throat via the covers of magazines. Synonyms lady, girl, member of the fair sex, member of the gentle sex, female Origin Middle English: from Old French femelle, from Latin femella, diminutive of femina 'a woman'. The change in the ending was due to association with male, but the words male and female are not linked etymologically. The spelling of female changed in the Middle Ages to match male, which is a quite different word. Female came via Old French femelle from Latin femella, which was a diminutive form of femina ‘woman’ source also of feminine (Late Middle English), whereas male (Late Middle English) is based on Latin masculus, from mas ‘a male person’. See also chauvinism, macho. The saying the female of the species is more deadly than the male comes originally from the 1911 poem ‘The Female of the Species’ by Rudyard Kipling. Whether the animal in question is a cobra, a she-bear, or a woman, the warning of where the greatest danger lies is the same, ‘For the female of the species is more deadly than the male’. Rhymes email adj.1 phr. Definition of female in US English: female adjectiveˈfēˌmālˈfiˌmeɪl 1Of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes. 雌性的 a herd of female deer 一群母鹿。 Example sentencesExamples Whether he slept with any of his female correspondents we do not know. Infested berries will have a discoloured area where the egg was inserted by the female fly. There have been cases of female animals ‘adopting’ motherless young ones of other species. Critics were divided neatly by age and sex, with almost all the female film correspondents and virtually everyone under the age of 35 loving the film. When breeding in the summer the male fertilizes the adult female starfish which then discharges up to twenty million eggs into the sea. A female correspondent to this magazine once claimed that it was not. The embryos were then inserted into female mice that gave birth to mice with this genetic defect. I wanted to be the first ever female cricket correspondent of the Times. The weight for both male and female polar bears has declined, and female bears are having fewer cubs. It was also considered a suitable name for a female crocodile. Manufacturing wages for female workers range as low as 12 cents to 30 cents per hour. She's Canadian and was one of the first female foreign correspondents on Canadian television. His laughter trailed behind her as he went to a fitting with another female worker, but she was not very attractive. Put simply, inserting a senior female police officer into an investigation was shown to spoil neither investigation nor genre. An unusual hybrid has been reported by veterinarians in Botswana - the offspring of a female goat and a male sheep. Like other mammals, female mice manufacture prenatally all the eggs they will ever have. There is no one-size-fits-all explanation for female infidelity among animals. Incidentally, practically all lamb and pork comes from female animals but, with beef, a good steer is as good as a good cow. Traditionally, male babies were valued much more highly than female offspring. She was the first female apprentice toolmaker employed by the company. 1.1 Relating to or characteristic of women or female animals. 女（性）的；女性特有的；雌性动物（特有）的 a female audience 女观众。 a female name 女子名。 Example sentencesExamples Dashed and nondashed lines represent male and female life cycles, respectively. And we have to say that the fashions on-show on the catwalk and in the mainly female audience were mouth watering. What I didn't expect to see was how amused the predominantly white female studio audience was with these clowns. Interestingly, she was named after her father who wanted his daughter to have a female version of his name. We are not inducing female sex characteristics at that age. I nearly dozed, although I did notice a surprising amount of female laughter in the audience. I'm willing to bet that Dido's audience is almost exclusively female, to an unusual degree in pop artists. What's the dumbest female name you can think of? He's begun hormone treatment, has adopted a female name, and hopes to undergo surgery within the next two years. I suppose my main gripe is the gender politics of this show, which I'm assuming is targeting a mainly female audience. Both are female-orientated, with strong female casts and a predominantly female audience. I don't know whether there was a corresponding list of stereotypical female faults. The baby boomer audience, mainly female, hung on his every note, nuance and gesture. If it's not that, I think it must be a biological improvement in female fertility. Most reproductions of the work are from a later alteration that obscured her obvious female characteristics. Beauty isn't, of course, characteristic only of the female form. So, they're really marketing to a lot more of the female audience now. Thus, it seems logical for a correlation to exist between male and female fertility traits. A practical move that gave us a pretty female name with a romantic touch to balance the tough masculine environment. Women have two ovaries in their wombs and are the major source of female hormones, manufacturing oestrogen and progesterone. Synonyms feminine, womanly, womanlike, ladylike 1.2 (of a plant or flower) having a pistil but no stamens. （植物）雌性的；（花）雌蕊的 Example sentencesExamples Male and hermaphroditic flowers are slightly larger and a brighter yellow than female flowers. Under field conditions small plants are often male, with production of both male and female flowers increasing with plant size. The female flowers mature in late summer and are used to add bitterness, favor, and aroma to beer. One male date palm can produce enough pollen for 49 female trees. The female tree is the best for the home garden, as they are the best fruit bearer. If the flower is female and comes with a small courgette attached, deep fry it. While in the bloom, they mate, feed, and brush pollen onto female flowers. It is grown to produce the narcotic drugs hashish and marijuana, made primarily from its female flowers. There are male and female flowers on different plants. The male flowers are on the tassels at the top of the plant; the female flowers form the silk that hangs out of the developing ears. However, the size distribution of male and female trees broadly overlapped. The female flower sits closer to the vine and has a swollen embryonic fruit at its base. Nearby, male nutmeg trees are planted next to the blooming female trees with the red laced nutmeg peeking out of their ripe yellow pods. Unpollinated ovaries were prepared by bagging the female flowers before anthesis. This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clusters. Planting female trees in one's own yard will attract and then trap incoming airborne pollen from males of their own species. Male flowers are pale yellow, whereas female flowers are white; inflorescences of both sexes are similar in size. Male flowers are at the top of the spike and female flowers at the base. That's because the female flower is a small terminal spike on the end of the current season's growth. If the goal is to just reduce the overall number of trees and stop further spreading, cut female trees only. 1.3 (of parts of machinery, fittings, etc.) manufactured hollow so that a corresponding male part can be inserted. （机器的部件、附件等）阴的，凹的，内孔的 Example sentencesExamples A basket holds the coil of roofing nails and adjusts for different nails If you incorrectly install a female fitting on a nailer or stapler. The tubing seat in the female fitting has a 42-degree taper. nounˈfēˌmālˈfiˌmeɪl A female person, animal, or plant. 女子；雌性动物；雌性植物，雌株 Example sentencesExamples This system of marking the females is still used at all levels of society. The females enter the spawning bays a few days later and spawning normally occurs around dawn and dusk. When the females arrive they rest up in deeper water until conditions are perfect for spawning. Biological differentiation into male and female makes sexual reproduction possible. This is more frequent in teenage boys than girls but is increasing among young females in my experience. This may give females a particularly large benefit from reallocating paternal expenses. The chromosome from the father determines whether the offspring becomes male or female. It also occurs in females, particularly when they need to defend their young. For moss sperm, attempts at fertilizing the female of the species may be doomed before they even begin. Most of my key operational females have no childcare responsibilities at all. The cubs are cared for by all the females in the pride, and will suckle from other females as well as from their mother. Figures show that women in Glasgow will die earlier than females anywhere else in Britain. The females manoeuvre for position in the middle of the shoal - with the biggest in the centre. There is also some sage advice for females wanting to break into what is still essentially a male domain. However, the sexual objectification of females is not confined to pornography. The life cycle begins as the adult female lays its eggs while burrowing into the skin. It is the females that inflict the bite to extract the blood they need to assist the production of their eggs. The sharks stay as late as December some years, before the females head north into Mozambique. This can be easily done in very thin females but is more difficult in heavier women. Everyone young and old, male and female bore this mark in the same place. Synonyms woman, lady, member of the fair sex, member of the gentle sex Origin Middle English: from Old French femelle, from Latin femella, diminutive of femina ‘a woman’. The change in the ending was due to association with male, but the words male and female are not linked etymologically.
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