FEMALE


Meaning of FEMALE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fi:meɪl ]

( females)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

Someone who is female is a woman or a girl.

...a sixteen-piece dance band with a female singer...

Only 13 per cent of consultants are female.

≠ male

ADJ

2.

Women and girls are sometimes referred to as females when they are being considered as a type.

Hay fever affects males more than females.

≠ male

N-COUNT

3.

Female matters and things relate to, belong to, or affect women rather than men.

...female infertility.

...a purveyor of female undergarments...

≠ male

ADJ : ADJ n

4.

You can refer to any creature that can lay eggs or produce babies from its body as a female .

Each female will lay just one egg in April or May.

≠ male

N-COUNT

Female is also an adjective.

...the scent given off by the female aphid to attract the male.

≠ male

ADJ

5.

A female flower or plant contains the part that will become the fruit when it is fertilized.

Figs have male and female flowers.

≠ male

ADJ : usu ADJ n

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