Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - female
Female
female
adj. & n. --adj. 1 of the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs. 2 (of plants or their parts) fruit-bearing; having a pistil and no stamens. 3 of or consisting of women or female animals or female plants. 4 (of a screw, socket, etc.) manufactured hollow to receive a corresponding inserted part. --n. a female person, animal, or plant. Phrases and idioms female impersonator a male performer impersonating a woman. Derivatives femaleness n. Etymology: ME f. OF femelle (n.) f. L femella dimin. of femina a woman, assim. to male
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I. adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. of, relating to, or being the sex that bears young or produces eggs, pistillate, b. composed of members of the ~ sex , characteristic of girls or women , having some quality (as gentleness) associated with the ~ sex, designed with a hollow or groove into which a corresponding male part fits , ~ness noun II. noun Etymology: Middle English, alteration of femel, femelle, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French femele, from Medieval Latin femella, from Latin, girl, diminutive of femina Date: 14th century 1. a ~ person ; a woman or a girl, an individual that bears young or produces large usually immobile gametes (as eggs) that are fertilized by small usually motile gametes of a male, a pistillate plant ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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