Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Lyhenteet
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
- Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
- Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
- (grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
- (of bacteria) Lacking the F factor, and able to receive DNA from another bacterium which does have this factor (a male).
- (figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
Substantiivi
- One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
- An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
- (sometimes proscribed) A human of feminine gender; a girl or woman.
- (botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
- A bacterium which lacks the F factor, and is able to receive DNA from another bacterium which has that factor.
- A female connector, pipe fitting, etc.
Esimerkit
- A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'
- The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | females |
| Komparatiivi | femaler |
| Superlatiivi | femalest |