Female vs Rusalka - What's the difference?
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Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XX chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).
* 1987 , Don't Shoot[,] Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia , page 350:
Belonging to the feminine (social) gender.
(grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
* 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:
(figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
# A human member of the feminine sex or gender.
# An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
# (botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
In Slavic mythology, a female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 1, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=What Do Aquawomen Want?, work=New York Times
, passage=She is now a rusalka , a water spirit; in revenge she sends their daughter, a rusalochka, to lure him into the water. }}
As nouns the difference between female and rusalka
is that female is one of the female (feminine) sex or gender while rusalka is in slavic mythology, a female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.As an adjective female
is belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has xx chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).female
English
Adjective
(-)- A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'
- The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female , but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
Synonyms
* feminine * (figuratively) socketCoordinate terms
* intersex * transgender * male * neuterDerived terms
* female-assigned, cisfemale, transfemaleNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* girl; see also * woman; see alsoSee also
* female genital mutilation * (Symbol for female) * (wikipedia) * sex, gender, gender identityReferences
* 1000 English basic wordsrusalka
English
Noun
(wikipedia rusalka)citation