FEMALE

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