<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>having or relating to a gender identity that corresponds to a complex, variable set of social and cultural roles, traits, and behaviors assigned to people of the sex that typically produces egg cells.</li><li>Biology: of, relating to, or being an animal or human of the sex or sexual phase that normally produces egg cells during reproduction.</li><li>Botany: designating or relating to a plant or its reproductive structure that produces or contains elements requiring fertilization.</li><li>Botany: (of seed plants) pistillate.</li><li>of, relating to, or characteristic of a female person; feminine: female charm.</li><li>comprising female people: a female readership.</li><li>Machinery: being or having a recessed part into which a corresponding part fits: Compare male.</li><li>a female plug.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a female person.</li><li>Biology: an animal, plant, or plant structure of the sex or sexual phase that normally produces egg cells during reproduction.</li></ul>