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A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.

A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.

llowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinos…

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

t 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.

es 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 headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.

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 male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.

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.

Velvet duck. (Zoöl.) (a) A large European sea duck, or scoter (Oidemia fusca). The adult male is glossy, velvety black, with a white speculum on each wing, and a white patch behind each eye. (b) The American whitewinged scoter. See Scoter. -- Velvet flower (Bot.), love-lies-bleeding. See under Love. -- Velvet grass…

The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.

, 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.