Female vs. Feminine — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Female and Feminine
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Female
Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces non-mobile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Female characteristics vary between different species with some species having pronounced female characteristics, such as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals.
Feminine
Of or relating to women or girls.
Female
Of or denoting the sex that produces ova or bears young.
Feminine
Characterized by or possessing qualities traditionally attributed to women, such as demureness.
Female
Characteristic of or appropriate to this sex in humans and other animals
Female hormones.
Female fashions.
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Feminine
Effeminate; womanish.
Female
Consisting of members of this sex. See Usage Note at lady.
Feminine
(Grammar) Relating or belonging to the gender of words or forms that refer chiefly to females or to things grammatically classified as female.
Female
Of or denoting the gamete that is larger and less motile than the other corresponding gamete. Used of anisogamous organisms.
Feminine
The feminine gender.
Female
Designating an organ, such as a pistil or ovary, that functions in producing seeds after fertilization.
Feminine
A word or form belonging to the feminine gender.
Female
Bearing pistils but not stamens; pistillate
Female flowers.
Feminine
Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
Female
Designed to receive or fit around a complementary male part, as a slot or receptacle
The female end of an extension cord.
Feminine
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
Female
A female organism.
Feminine
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
Female
A woman or girl.
Feminine
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
Female
Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
Female authors, the leading male and female artists, a female bird cooing at a male, intersex female patients, a trans female vlogger
Feminine
(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
Female
Characteristic of this sex/gender. feminine, womanly.}}
Stereotypically female pastimes, an insect with typically female coloration
Feminine
(of a noun) Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
Female
Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
The female chromosome;
Estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, is produced by both females and males
Feminine
(of another part of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
Female
Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
Feminine
|of any word}} Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
Female
(of bacteria) Lacking the F factor, and able to receive DNA from another bacterium which does have this factor (a male).
Feminine
That which is feminine.
Female
(figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
Feminine
A woman.
Female
One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
Feminine
(grammar) The feminine gender.
Female
A human of the feminine sex.
Feminine
(grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
Female
An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
Feminine
Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
Female
(botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
Feminine
A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
Female
A bacterium which lacks the F factor, and is able to receive DNA from another bacterium which has that factor.
Feminine
Associated with women and not with men;
Feminine intuition
Female
A female connector, pipe fitting, etc.
Feminine
Of grammatical gender;
`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun
Female
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.
Feminine
Befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman;
Womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion
Female
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
Feminine
(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable;
A feminine ending
Female
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 doveWhen that her golden couplets are disclosed.
Female
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.
Female
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.
Female
An animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
Female
A person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
Female
Being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop;
A female heir
Female holly trees bear the berries
A male infant
A male holly tree
Female
Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman;
Female sensitiveness
Female suffrage
Female
For or composed of women or girls;
The female lead in the play
A female chorus
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