Female (♀) is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova (egg cells). Most female mammals, including human females, have two X chromosomes.
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... A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse ... two species, a mule is easier to obtain than a hinny (the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey) ... instance of a male mule siring offspring, female mules have on very rare occasion given birth to viable offspring ...
... The male and female will fly together up in the air in a circular motion ... the two get to a certain height, the male will dive toward the female and then they will raise back to the height again ... repeat this until finally the male latches onto the female and they begin to free-fall down to earth ...
... As of 2011, over 40% of players are female, according to the video game industry ... Central Florida found that of the 33 games sampled, 41% do not feature female characters, 28% portrayed women as sex objects, 21% depicted violence against women, and 30% did not represent the ... to the goal of the game"), and trivial ("females depicted in fairly non-significant roles") ...
... Ginkgos are dioecious, with separate sexes, some trees being female and others being male ... Female plants do not produce cones ... of the seed) and a papery endotesta, with the nucellus surrounding the female gametophyte at the center ...
... stamens to the pistil of flowering plants or from the male cone to the female cone of coniferous plants ... When pollen lands on a compatible pistil or female cone (i.e ... has occurred), it germinates and produces a pollen tube that transfers the sperm to the ovule (or female gametophyte) ...
Famous quotes containing the word female:
“Recently we’ve been hearing a lot about women “having it all.” Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of female lives today. It seems to me that what we have been up to is DOING it all.”
—Sylvia Hewlett (20th century)
“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behaviour was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people’s experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.”
—Rosalind Coward (b. 1953)
“You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)