Among animals, one of that sex which conceives and brings forth young.

Among plants, that which produces fruit; that which bears the pistil and receives the pollen of the male flowers.

Noting the sex which produces young; not male; as a female bee.

Pertaining to females; as a female hand or heart; female tenderness. To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America.

Feminine; soft; delicate; weak. Female rhymes, double rhymes, so called from the French, in which language they end in e feminine.