(FEMINA,) a term peculiar to animals, signifying that sex which conceives and generates its young within itself. See Sex and Generation.

Female is also applied, figuratively, to things without life, from the resemblance they bear to the females of animals. Thus we say a Female-Screw. See Screw.

Female-Flower. See Feminus Flo.

Female-Plant. See Feminae Planta.