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female 音标拼音: [f'im ,el] n. 女性,女人,雌兽
a. 女性的,女子的 女性,女人,雌兽女性的,女子的 female adj 1: 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" [ ant: { androgynous}, { male}] 2: characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; " female sensitiveness"; " female suffrage" [ synonym: { female}, { distaff}] 3: for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls; " the female lead in the play"; " a female chorus" n 1: an animal that produces gametes ( ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes ( spermatozoa) [ ant: { male}] 2: a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies [ synonym: { female}, { female person}] [ ant: { male}, { male person}] Female \ Fe" male\, n. [ OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L. femella, dim. of femina woman. See { Feminine}.] 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or ( in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. [ 1913 Webster] The male and female of each living thing. -- Drayton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Bot.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. [ 1913 Webster]
Female \ Fe" male\, a. 1. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or ( in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. [ 1913 Webster] As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. " Female usurpation." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America. -- Belknap. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Bot.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. [ 1913 Webster] { Female rhymes} ( Pros.), double rhymes, or rhymes ( called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. [ 1913 Webster] Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree ( strain, complain) is called a male rhyme; one in which the two final syllables of each verse agree, the last being short ( motion, ocean), is called female. -- Brande & C. { Female screw}, the spiral- threaded cavity into which another, or male, screw turns. -- Nicholson. { Female fern} ( Bot.), a common species of fern with large decompound fronds ({ Asplenium Filixf[ ae] mina}), growing in many countries; lady fern. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn: { Female}, { Feminine}. Usage: We apply female to the sex or individual, as opposed to male; also, to the distinctive belongings of women; as, female dress, female form, female character, etc.; feminine, to things appropriate to, or affected by, women; as, feminine studies, employments, accomplishments, etc. " Female applies to sex rather than gender, and is a physiological rather than a grammatical term. Feminine applies to gender rather than sex, and is grammatical rather than physiological." -- Latham. [ 1913 Webster] 22 Moby Thesaurus words for " female": distaff, female being, feminine, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, her, kittenish, ladylike, little- girlish, maidenly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, petticoat, she, womanish, womanlike, womanly |
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