meaning of fem
1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
2. A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
3. Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
4. Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
5. Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
6. double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.
7. a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.
Related Words
female | femalist | femalize | feme | femeral | femerell | feminal | feminality | feminate | femineity | feminine | femininely | feminineness | femininity | feminity | feminization | feminize | feminye | femme | femora | femoral | femur |
