Female

1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
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.

1. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
2. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
3. (Bot.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
Female rhymes (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.
Female screw ,
the spiral-threaded cavity into which another, or male, screw turns.
Female fern (Bot.),
a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfæmina), growing in many countries; lady fern.