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female

[fee-meyl] / ˈfi meɪl /
ADJECTIVE
having the qualities or characteristics of a woman
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


ADJECTIVE
of the sex that produces offspring
Synonyms
STRONGEST
childbearing offspring-bearing


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One familiar example is the decline in ovarian function that contributes to the biological clock associated with female fertility.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

Scott originally intended only to produce this one, a film built around a female friendship that hardly seemed an obvious fit for him as a director.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Petals and hearts were photoshopped on to the then-Labour leader by the "Milifandom", a movement of young, mostly female, voters sharing romanticised images on Twitter to protest against Miliband's "distorted media portrayal".

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Marija is also, despite insisting otherwise to Vytas, seeing someone—a female colleague, who cheers on her resignation but doesn’t go so far as to follow her out the door.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

“That’s enough for today,” said her climbing coach, a female commando from the Special Air Service.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

A male Montagu's harrier, known as "AU" by conservationists, bred with two different females, rearing six chicks across two nests on English farmland.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Under this genetic system, females develop from fertilized eggs and possess two sets of chromosomes, while males develop from unfertilized eggs and have only one set.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

“When six alpha females get together there’s bound to be drama, but we never go to bed angry,” says Rachel Castaldi, a part-time preschool teacher in Princeton, N.J.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The mystery affliction has killed at least 19 pachyderms, mostly females or young males, since June in Kenya -- with all of the animals exhibiting identical symptoms, including partial paralysis.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

As the females greeted one another, he got a good running start and re-created Anastasia’s charge.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer




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