female vs person

person vs female

female and person both are nouns.

female is an adjective but person is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
female	Yes	Yes	No	No
person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, person is a hypernym of female; that is, person is a word with a broader meaning than female:

female: a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
person: a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

Other hypernyms of female include individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul.

female (noun)	person (noun)
an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)	a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies	a human body (usually including the clothing)
	a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

female (adjective)	person (adjective)
being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

Difference between female and person

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