(n.) An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
(n.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
(a.) Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
(a.) Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
(a.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(3) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(4) Determination of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) levels in the peripubertal female rats revealed that plasma LH was increased transiently immediately after NPY administration.
(5) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(6) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
(7) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(8) Groups of inbred female mice of strains CBA or C3H were infected genitally with a pathogenic human strain of Chlamydia trachomatis (N.I.1, serovar F) known to produce salpingitis and infertility in mice.
(9) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
(10) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
(11) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(12) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(13) The serum ACE activity showed no significant difference between male and female in the control or sarcoidosis groups.
(14) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(15) We also demonstrated a significant difference in the Hb switching process between male and female newborns.
(16) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(17) Female littermates injected with 0.15 M NaCl served as controls.
(18) In both cases, female cells presented more nucleoli than the respective male cells.
(19) The high concentrations of gonadotropins present in immature female rats by the end of the second week of life were suppressed by treatment with an antagonist against luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH-A; Org.
(20) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
Jenny
Definition:
(n.) A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane.
(n.) A familiar name of the European wren.
(n.) A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(2) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
(3) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(4) Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys [Official Music Video] Oh boy!
(5) After more than a year together, Jenny felt that Bob had given her the right signals that he was interested in having children with her.
(6) Sands will be the second woman to edit the agenda-setting programme after Dame Jenny Abramsky, the chair of the Royal Academy of Music.
(7) Jenny Jones calls for IPCC to investigate alleged destruction of her police files Read more On Wednesday the IPCC also announced that it was examining claims that the same intelligence unit had improperly destroyed files it held on the Green party peer, Jenny Jones .
(8) So I wrote this everyday story about Jenny living with her father - and stepfather.
(9) According to Jenny, he argued that she should not waste her life on the run, constantly looking over her shoulder, and that she deserved better – a rewarding career and a family.
(10) Jenny Banks, climate and energy policy officer at WWF-UK, called on the British government to halt shale gas exploration.
(11) "A dear friend, and Sweden's foremost foreign correspondent, was gunned down in Kabul today," said Swedish columnist Jenny Nordberg.
(12) The US diet phenomenon Jenny Craig was bought by Swiss multinational Nestlé, which also sells chocolate and ice-cream.
(13) Experimental work has established that a sexual process can occur in African trypanosomes (Jenni, Marti, Schweizer, Betschart, Le Page, Wells, Tait, Paindavoine, Pays & Steinert, 1986; Paindavoine, Zampetti-Bosseler, Pays, Schweizer, Guyaux, Jenni & Steinert, 1986; Tait, personal communication).
(14) Jenny Peachey is a policy officer for Carnegie UK Trust • Want your say?
(15) The BBC has cast the 26-year-old stage actress Jessica Raine in the lead role of Jenny in the new six-part series.
(16) Team GB Britain’s Jenny Jones starts with a score of 73.00 in her first run.
(17) The Sochi Games have proved a big hit for BBC2 , beating ITV in the ratings for two days running over the weekend, but viewers were unhappy about the coverage of Jenny Jones's Olympic bronze medal success in the snowboarding slopestyle final on Sunday.
(18) Jennie Gray was sentenced to 42 months in jail for child cruelty and for her part in the cover-up, while Butler was also handed a five-year sentence for child cruelty over a series of untreated injuries in the weeks and months before her death.
(19) Jenny Agutter, actor I was reluctant to accept the role of Roberta because I'd played her two years earlier in a BBC series, and had since left school.
(20) Several years ago Wellingborough and surrounding towns resisted the local development agency's bid to rebrand it North Londonshire but local estate agent Jenny Pendered said she made the most of its good transport links when marketing properties.