{
  "id": "female.sex",
  "term": "female",
  "sense": "sex",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "people.social",
  "domain": "human biology",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a matter that differs from other matter",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "the matter’s difference from other matter establishes a distinct sex category",
    "novel_properties": [
      "reproductive role (egg production)",
      "XX chromosome pattern",
      "secondary sex characteristics"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The all-female colony of whiptail lizards in New Mexico reproduces through parthenogenesis, no males involved.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2023 World Athletics Championships required sex verification tests for female sprinters in the 400m event.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A Tesla Model 3's firmware update in 2022 adjusted battery charging logic based on driver-identified sex data.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "type.category",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "female is a type category of sex"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "girls.human",
    "male.sex",
    "man.human",
    "women.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "female",
    "females"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-female.sex"
}