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fate map
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noun
  1. (biology) a diagram of an embryo of some organism showing the structures that will develop from each part
female
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noun
  1. Someone of feminine sex or gender.
  2. Something of feminine sex or gender.
adjective
  1. Belonging or referring to the sex which is generally characterized as the one associated with the larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).
  2. (context, figurative, electronics) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
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fertile
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adjective
  1. (context, of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive
  2. (biology) capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful
  3. (biology) capable of developing past the egg stage
  4. (context, of an imagination etc) productive or prolific
fertility
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noun (uncountable)
  1. the condition, or the degree of being fertile
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  1. the birthrate of a population - the number of live births per 1000 people per year
fertilization
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noun (plural: fertilizations)
  1. The act or process of rendering fertile.
  2. The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
fetal
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adjective
  1. (embryology) Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
fetus
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noun
  1. (embryology) An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
  2. (embryology) An unborn baby after the 7th week of gestation.
fibrillation
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noun
  1. The rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.
fission
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noun
  1. The process whereby one item splits to become two.
  2. (physics): The process of splitting an atom into smaller particles.
  3. (biology): The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.
fissiparous
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adjective
  1. factious, Factious, tending to break into pieces.
  2. Causing division or fragmenting something.
  1. (biology): Of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two.
foetus
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noun (es, pl2=foeti)
  1. (embryology) An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
  2. (embryology) An unborn baby after the 7th week of gestation.

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