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 →

2) A female is a female person or animal. tree →

3) In plants, female parts make seeds or fruit. tree →

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 →
• Only the female mosquito bites. tree →
• The female bird sits on the eggs. tree →
• There are 14 female and 12 male pupils in our class. tree →
• The female part of the flower is in the middle. tree →
• Female sea turtles come back to the beach to lay eggs. tree →
• Here sat two female figures, a young and an old one. tree →

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.
• All clownfish hatch as males, and the biggest one in a group can turn into the female.
• The temperature of the nest decides whether the babies will be male or female.
• Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched; scientists think they remember its magnetic signature.
• Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and female tarantulas can live 20 to 30 years.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «female» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.