femina

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femina

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From Latin fēmina (“woman”), perhaps via Italian femmina. Doublet of feme, femme, and hembra.

noun femina · feminas

A wing feather from a female ostrich. The numbers are given here to show all the whites together, and then the feminas, &c.; but in sending them to market it is better to arrange the numbers so that a lot of whites are followed by a lot of feminas, then a lot of whites again, then a lot of fancy colours, then whites again, and so on rig

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@misc{femina_2026,
  title = {femina},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/femina},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}