Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Female \Fe"male\, n. [OE. femel, femal, F. femelle, fr. L.
   femella, dim. of femina woman. See {Feminine}.]
   1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth
      young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and
      produces ova.

            The male and female of each living thing. --Drayton.

   2. (Bot.) A plant which produces only that kind of
      reproductive organs which are capable of developing into
      fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate
      plant.

Female \Fe"male\, a.
   1. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to
      young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.

            As patient as the female dove When that her golden
            couplets are disclosed.               --Shak.

   2. Belonging to an individual of the female sex;
      characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
      ``Female usurpation.'b8 --Milton.

            To the generous decision of a female mind, we owe
            the discovery of America.             --Belknap.

   3. (Bot.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in
      cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

Source : WordNet®

female
     adj 1: being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces
            fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring
            develop; "a female heir"; "female holly trees bear the
            berries" [ant: {androgynous}, {male}]
     2: characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female
        sensitiveness"; "female suffrage" [syn: {distaff}]
     3: for or composed of women or girls; "the female lead in the
        play"; "a female chorus"

female
     n 1: an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized
          by male gametes (spermatozoa) [ant: {male}]
     2: a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies [syn: {female
        person}] [ant: {male}]