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Definition of Female offspring
1. Noun. A child who is female.
Specialized synonyms: Daughter, Girl
Antonyms: Male Offspring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Female Offspring
Literary usage of Female offspring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"If, as Seligson maintained, the right ovary gives rise to male and the left to
female offspring, the pairs of pigs next the right ovary ought to be ..."
2. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1914)
"... and of the male and female offspring of the female grandis, ... by male grandi*
12.6 days; and of the male and female offspring of the female ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... produced a distinct excess of female offspring. sexes must therefore be capable
of being experimentally modified and regulated, are conceptions which ..."
4. Schenck's Theory: The Determination of Sex by Samuel Leopold Schenk (1898)
"Similarly, the tenet is propounded that the right ovary contains male ova and
the left such only as will, when developed, produce female offspring. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"A further conclusion is worth noting: Parents, whether male or female, when they
have male are apparently more variable than when they have female offspring ..."
6. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"The male and the female offspring of a given organism both inherit a similar
share of materials from both parents, but simply take different courses in the ..."
7. Farmer's Cyclopedia of Live Stock by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Clarence Beaman Smith (1908)
"Miles states that in Michigan in ewes and cows served as soon as they were in
heat the female offspring were twice as numerous as male in some years while ..."
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