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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
- 1noun
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
- 2noun
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
- 3adjective
Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
- 4adjective
Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
- 5adjective
Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
- 6noun
an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
- 7noun
a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
- 8adjective
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"
- 9adjective
for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
"the female lead in the play"
"a female chorus"
- 10adjective
characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
"female sensitiveness"
"female suffrage"
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