1. имя существительное 1) женщина; девушка 2) [биология] а) [зоология] самка; матка б) [ботаника] женская особь 2. прилагательное 1) женского пола, женский Синоним(ы): feminine 2) присущий женщине, характерный для женщины 3) [технический термин] охватывающий, обнимающий; с внутренней нарезкой Например: female screw — гайка; гаечная резьба 4) [ботаника] пестиковый Синоним(ы): pistillate
I. adjective 1. a. (1) of, relating to, or being the sex that bears young or produces eggs (2) pistillate b. (1) composed of members of the female sex Example: the female population (2) characteristic of girls or women Example: composed for female voices Example: a female name 2. having some quality (as gentleness) associated with the female sex 3. designed with a hollow or groove into which a corresponding male part fits Example: the female coupling of a hose • femaleness noun II. noun Etymology: Middle English, alteration of femel, femelle, from Anglo-French and Medieval Latin; Anglo-French femele, from Medieval Latin femella, from Latin, girl, diminutive of femina 1. a. a female person; a woman or a girl b. an individual that bears young or produces large usually immobile gametes (as eggs) that are fertilized by small usually motile gametes of a male 2. a pistillate plant