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(1):

(n.) An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

(2):

(n.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

(3):

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

(4):

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

(5):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Female'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/female.html. 1828.
 
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