Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Female; belonging to a woman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Feminine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
women ,femininity orfeminism
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Examples
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Tims as to the male organs, the filaments are the fpermatic veffels, the anthera the tefticles, and the duft of the anthera correfponds to the fperm and feminal animalcules; and as to the female, the ftigma is the internal part of the female organ which receives the duft, the ftyle anfwers to the vagina, the germ to the ovarv, and the perlcarpium, or fecundated ovary, to the womb.
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Without cotyledons or lobes to the feed; and confequently not having any feminal leaves: as in the clafs Cryptogamia.
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'TIS a neceflary Precaution ufed in the Garden, to fet out the feveral Species of Plants, which are defigned for Seed, very carefully by themfelves; left the Fa - rina facunclansy or feminal* Duft, of any degenerated Plants in their Neighbour - hood, be fcattcred upon the Matrices of their BlofToms, and thereby degenerate the whole future Plantation.
Christian husbandry: or, A companion for the Christian in his field and ... Ambrose Serle 1792
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