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IELTS BNC: 1563 COCA: 1396

female

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Related topics: Animals, Plants, Daily life, Biology
fe·male1 /ˈfiːmeɪl/ ●●● S3 W2 adjectiveadj  
1  relating to women or girls 女（性）的 OPP male → feminine
 female voters
女性选民
 Over half of the staff are female.
半数以上的员工是女性。
2  HBAbelonging to the sex that can have babies or produce eggs 雌（性）的；母的 OPP male
 a female spider
雌蜘蛛
3. HBPa female plant or flower produces fruit 〔植物、花〕雌性的 OPP male
4. technicalDT a female part of a piece of equipment has holes into which the male part can be fitted 〔零件〕阴的，内孔的，凹的 OPP male
Examples from the Corpus
female• What about the differences between the male and female brain?• Emma is the only female lawyer that the firm has ever employed.• Five female officers remain on the 78-member force; two of them, including Ferguson, are on leave.• I remember watching a whole flock of female phalaropes badgering a poor male so intensely he almost drowned.• Patience and kindness are often seen as female qualities.• the female reproductive system• Many women reject the traditional female roles of wife and mother.• A string of female rulers, from Boudicca to Margaret Thatcher, gives the lie to that idea.• Among female singers, Jessye Norman has a highly enthusiastic following, in part because opera appearances are rare.• Notice the distinguishing marks of the female spider.• Female students tend to get better grades than male students.• In Tokyo, the number of female taxi drivers is up 75% since 1972.• He used five female volunteers who knew the experiment was taking place.
Related topics: Animals, Biology
female2 ●●● W3 noun [countableC]  
1. HBAan animal that belongs to the sex that can have babies or produce eggs 女性；雌性动物 OPP male
2  WOMANa woman or girl 女人；女孩 OPP male
 As a group, females performed better on the test than males.
整体来说，女性在这次测试中胜过男性。
► see thesaurus at woman
3. a plant that produces flowers or fruit 雌性植物，雌株 OPP male
Examples from the Corpus
female• Adult males came in at 10 hours a week, adult females and college students at 9 hours, teen-agers at 7.• The co-operation is understandable in evolutionary terms as the males and females in a single-female syconium are brothers and sisters.• Was this the treatment Roman meted out to any female who presumed a little too much, grew a little too possessive?• Each species chooses to exploit the senses that its females are best at detecting.• The male then chases the female away.• One of the females put the last tray on a trolley and wheeled it past Masklin.• The female of the species performs her mating dance.• The trained females who have calves at foot keep their young with them as they work.
Origin female2
(1300-1400) Old French femelle (influenced by male), from Latin femella “girl”
fe·male1 adjectiveadjfemale2 noun
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IELTS BNC: 1563 COCA: 1396
IELTS BNC: 1563 COCA: 1396
female noun
⇨ woman
IELTS BNC: 1563 COCA: 1396
female
Describing or relating to women or girls: female, feminine, womanly...
Words used to describe plants and plant parts: algal, androgynous, aquatic...
Describing machines and pieces of equipment: all-singing, all-dancing, analog, analogue...
Women and girls: woman, female, womankind...

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