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A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some dioecious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Hæmatozoa.

ls, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy. Bailey.

Female government; gynecocracy. The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir H. Scott.…

One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.

fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the wings are marked by dark lines and a dark lunule. The caterpillars, when full- grown, have a grayish mottled appearance, with blue tubercles on the anterior and red tubercl…

Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.

A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. [Obs.] He was a gentle harlot and a kind. Chaucer.

A female harper. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

e, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen. -- Heath hen. (Zoöl.) See Heath grouse (above). -- Heath pea (bot.), a species of bitter vetch (Lathyris macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. -…

receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.

, A female heir.

of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.

The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.

A shepherdess; a female herder. Sir P. Sidney. Chaucer.

An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place with…

A female hermit. Coleridge.

The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story.