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
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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