female vs pistillate

female is a noun but pistillate is not a noun.

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

female (noun)	pistillate (noun)
an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

female (adjective)	pistillate (adjective)
being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop	bearing or consisting of carpels
for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls	having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant
characteristic of or peculiar to a woman