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Female

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

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Similar meaning 4

Feminine 84% connected

Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

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Feminine 84% connected

Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

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Pistillate 84% connected

Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

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Pistillate 84% connected

Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

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Animal 76% connected

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Beast 76% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Brute 76% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Creature 76% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Fauna 76% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Individual 76% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Mortal 76% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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Person 76% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Somebody 76% connected

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Soul 76% connected

Sole.

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Blonde 76% connected

Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

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Dam 76% connected

A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.

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Filly 76% connected

A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.

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Girl 76% connected

A young person of either sex; a child.

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Hen 76% connected

The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.

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Miss 76% connected

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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Missy 76% connected

See Misy.

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Witch 76% connected

A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Distaff 74% connected

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

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Distaff 74% connected

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

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See also 2

Feminine 66% connected

Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

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Feminine 66% connected

Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.

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Gender 66% connected

Kind; sort.

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Gender 66% connected

Kind; sort.

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Sex 66% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Sex 66% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Sexuality 66% connected

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

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Sexuality 66% connected

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

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Synonym 1

Distaff 92% connected

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 4

Male 94% connected

Evil; wicked; bad.

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Male 94% connected

Evil; wicked; bad.

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