adj belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
2. female ·adj having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
3. female ·adj belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
4. female ·noun an individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
5. female ·noun a plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.