La Palabra del Día: " hembra"
hembra (em'-brah)
adjective ( female )
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1. Prefería una perrita hembra y blanca.
I would prefer a white female puppy.
2. Tienes que encontrar el conector macho para esta parte hembra.
You have to find the male connector for this female part.
23 Answers
I hate to say this, but the word "hembra" has not been used correctly in many sentences here in this thread.
- On the other hand, the word "hembra" in Spanish, has a "Sexual" connotation. That is why it is not quite okay to refer to a woman as an "hembra"
- In Spanish we have the direct, explicit male of female word for genders and the used of "hembra" does not go well with them. There are some animals or things that do not have a gender attached to them and that would be the perfect place for such two words, "Hembra and Macho"
- Águila = El águila hembra or El Águila macho.
- Adaptadores (Ferretería) = Adaptors (Hardware store) = Necesito un adaptador PVC hembra/macho de 1/2 pulgada para acueducto.
- Buey (Ox) = La hembra del buey está enferma.
- ¡La perra tuvo una camada de 8 perros! ¡5 hembras y 3 machos!
- To say el ratón hembra, el perro hembra, el caballo hembra, etc. is incorrect because they have their proper, distinct gender words. It is pretty much like saying, La perra macho, La ratona macho o la Yegua macho.
No confunda la nariz de este cerdo hembra con la hembra de corriente. Don’t confuse the nose of this female pig with the electrical outlet.
We used to have a male cat, which was very fat. So we went to the vet with our fat cat. And the vet said: "Your cat is pregnant and will have little cats." We were surprised because we were sure, it was a male cat. We were waiting and waiting while the small cats were going to be born, but nothing happened. So we went to the vet again. And the vet said: " Your cat is not a female cat. It is a male cat. It is just very fat. He must be on a diet." 
Alguna vez tuvimos un gato que era muy gordo, así que lo llevamos al veterinario. Al llegar al consultorio, el veterinario dijo: "Tu gata está preñada y tendrá unos gatitos". Estabamos sorprendidos porque estabamos seguros de que era macho. Estuvimos esperando y esperando el nacimiento de esos pequeños gatitos, pero no sucedió nada. Así que fuimos al veterinario y éste nos dijo: "tu gato no es hembra, es macho, sólo que está demasiado gordo; debe ponerse a dieta".
La elefante hembra es protectora de sus crías.
The female elephant is protective of her young.
Some women are asking for the right to go out without upper clothing to be equal to men. I think this female is one of them.
Algunas mujeres solicitan el derecho a salir sin ropa de arriba para ser igual a los hombres.
Pienso que esta hembra es una de ellas. 
Las atletas hembras necesitan tomar cuidado de las rodillas, especialmente el ACL o el ligamento cruzado anterior.
Female athletes need to take care of their knees, especially the ACL or anterior cruciate ligament.
Ayer vi la paloma hembra arrulando con la paloma macho.
Yesterday I saw the female dove mourning with the male one.
Hay son dos hembra en gatos donde vivo y ellos son ambos embarazada.
There are two female cats where I live and they are both pregnant.
Corrected: Hay dos gatas donde vivo y ambas están embarazadas.
Aquí tenemos la hembra del faisán. Qué pájaro más bonito.
Here we have the hen pheasant. What a beutiful bird.
Mi gata es muy presumida y coqueta.
My female cat is very coquettish and she always looks after her appearance.
En algunas especies de animales es más difícil de distinguir si los individuos son machos o hembras que en otras.
In some animal species it is more difficult to determine if the individuals are male or female than in others.
Desgraciadamente los ratones hembras son muy fértiles
Unfortunately female mice are very fertile.
There are certain animals that are both male and female.
Hay algunos animáles hay que ambos macho y hembra.
Hay un loro en el norte de Australia que se llama Eclectus Parrot. En esta especie el macho y la hembra son tan diferentes que en el pasado la gente creía que eran dos especies distintas. La hembra es roja y azul, el macho es verde.
There is a parrot in the north of Australia called the Eclectus Parrot. In this species the male and female are so different that in the past people used to believe that they were two distinct species. The female is red and blue, the male is green.
In the world of animals, an alpha male or female is the leader of the herd. Others must obey his/her orders.
En el mundo de los animales, un macho o hembra alfa es el líder del rebaño o grupo. Los otros deben obedecer sus órdenes.
