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n. - An animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa); A person who belongs to the sex that can have babies.

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  • I don't want to think of what they call female cockroaches.
  • The alpha female is a busy woman, or at least she is very talented at making you believe that.
  • If the female is at fault, get her locked up! on October 27, 2007 at 2: 22 pm | Reply PC Bloggs
  • You say that in all animals the female is the inferior; and you have never seen any reason to believe that the human species affords an exception to this observation.
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