female

female is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
2. noun. A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
3. adjective. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
4. adjective. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
5. adjective. Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
6. noun. an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
7. noun. a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
8. adjective. 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"

9. adjective. for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls

   "the female lead in the play"

   "a female chorus"

10. adjective. characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

    "female sensitiveness"

    "female suffrage"

    Synonyms: distaff

Synonyms

distaff

Common word forms

females, femalely, femaleness

Words from these letters

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