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WOMEN |
Females |
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BEVY |
Group of females |
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OCTETTE |
Group of eight females |
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WOMANKIND |
The females of the human race; women, collectively. |
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THELYTOKOUS |
Producing females only; -- said of certain female
insects. |
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NOBLESSE |
The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively,
including males and females. |
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HAREM |
The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females
in Mohammedan families. |
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PROUD |
Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to
the females of some animals. |
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SOCIAL |
Living in communities consisting of males, females, and
neuters, as do ants and most bees. |
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PUPILLARITY |
The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen
in males, and twelve in females. |
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CIRCUMCISION |
The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of
males, or the internal labia of females. |
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SHREW |
Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of
either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold. |
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CIRCUMCISE |
To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case
of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females. |
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INTROMITTENT |
Used in copulation; -- said of the external
reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of
those of the females. |
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HETEROGYNOUS |
Having females very unlike the males in form and
structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and
the females wingless. |
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MONASTERY |
A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from
ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely
applied to such a house for females. |
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FEMININE |
Any one of those words which are the appellations of
females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words;
as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix. |
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PUBERTY |
The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting
or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be
about fourteen years in males and twelve in females. |
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HORNTAIL |
Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous
insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees.
So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females. |
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COCHINEAL |
A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of
the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc.,
and found on sever... |
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GLOWWORM |
A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the
wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca,
and L. splendidul... |
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PSEUDOVUM |
An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some
insects and other animals, and by the larvae of certain insects. It is
capable of develo... |
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WORKER |
... social
ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having
the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, un... |
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NEUTER |
Having a form belonging more especially to words which are
not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that
which is of nei... |
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SERAGLIO |
...an, at
Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers
and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the... |