Female - Definition of Female by Webster Dictionary

Definition of Female

Fe´male

n.	1.	An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. The male and female of each living thing. - Drayton.
	2.	(Bot.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
a.	1.	Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male. As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. - Shak.
	2.	Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness. To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe the discovery of America. - Belknap.
	3.	(Bot.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
(Pros.) double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.