As nouns the difference between female and saintess
is that
female is one of the female (feminine) sex or gender while
saintess is a female saint.
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
( -)
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:
- 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.'
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:
- 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.
(figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
Synonyms
* feminine
* (figuratively) socket
Coordinate terms
* intersex
* transgender
* male
* neuter
Derived terms
* female-assigned, cisfemale, transfemale
Noun
( en noun)
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.
Synonyms
* girl; see also
* woman; see also
See also
* female genital mutilation
* (Symbol for female)
* (wikipedia)
* sex, gender, gender identity
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saintess English
Noun
(es)
A female saint. |
