Female
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
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Female Quotations
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
James Madison
They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
Angelina Jolie
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
Joan Rivers
Female Translations
female in Afrikaans is vroulik
female in Danish is kvindelig
female in Dutch is wijfje, vrouwtje
female in French is femelle
female in German is Buchse, weiblich
female in Norwegian is kvinnelig, hunn, kvinne
female in Spanish is feminino, hembra
female in Swedish is kvinnlig, hona, fruntimmerkvinna
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