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Word: Female
Speech Type: Adjective
Middle English: from Old French femelle, from Latin femella, diminutive of femina ‘a woman’. The change in the ending was due to association with male, but the words male and female are not linked etymologically
ˈfiːmeɪl
of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes
Short Definition:of sex that bears offspring or produces eggs
Examples:- a herd of female deer
- twenty-two of the participants in the study were female
Word: Female
Speech Type: Noun
ˈfiːmeɪl
a female animal or plant
Short Definition:female animal or plant
Examples:- females may lay several hundred eggs in two to four weeks
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