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# female

«female» in Mova's school dictionary: **of the sex that can have babies or lay eggs; women and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (female); noun (a female, females)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Female means of the sex that can have babies or lay eggs; women and girls are female. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#m1)

2) A female is a female person or animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#m2)

3) In plants, female parts make seeds or fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science: female animals lay eggs or give birth; female and male parts of flowers. In forms: tick male or female. In maths problems: counting females and males in a group or ratios. Phrases: female animal, female lion, female worker.

### examples

- A female lion is called a lioness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#x1)
- Only the female mosquito bites. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#x2)
- The female bird sits on the eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#x3)
- There are 14 female and 12 male pupils in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#x4)
- The female part of the flower is in the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#x5)
- Female sea turtles come back to the beach to lay eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#x6)
- Here sat two female figures, a young and an old one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/#x7)

### note

Opposite: male. Calling a woman "a female" can sound rude or cold; say "a woman" or "a girl". In maths: if 14 of 26 are female, 12 are male; the ratio female to male is 14:12 = 7:6.

### In the corpora

- [Reindeer are the only deer in which both males and females usually grow antlers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/6-the-arctic/17/)
- [All clownfish hatch as males, and the biggest one in a group can turn into the female.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/6/)
- [The temperature of the nest decides whether the babies will be male or female.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/10/)
- [Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched; scientists think they remember its magnetic signature.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/14/)
- [Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and female tarantulas can live 20 to 30 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «female» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/female/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.