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Webster's English Dictionary

female

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. ()

The male and female of each living thing. (Drayton.)

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. ()

a. 1. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. ()

As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. (Shak.)

2. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. (Milton.)

To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America. (Belknap.)

3. (Bot.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization. ()

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] 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 Filixfmina), growing in many countries; lady fern. [1913 Webster] 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. ()

(Latham.)