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Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.

ent of the feet; a skip. His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door. Sir W. Scott.

cies of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabæus, Copris, Phanæus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.

A female guardian; a tutoress. [R.] Smollett.

A female tyrant. [Obs.] "That proud tyranness." Spenser. Akenside.

Female umpire. [R.] Marston.

One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.

Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; dioecious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Dioecious.

The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.

A weasel. [Prov. Eng.] Vare widgeon (Zoöl.), a female or young male of the smew; a weasel duck; -- so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a vare, or weasel. [Prov. Eng.]

A female vassal. [R.] Spenser.

A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.

re, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior. To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries. Pope.

A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect. The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of our Lord. -- Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as C. Vitalba of Eu…

army, a woman accompanying a regiment, who sells provisions and liquor to the soldiers; a female sutler.

A female fox. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs.

A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.

A female warrior. [Obs.] Spenser.

Made of wax. "The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells." Milton.