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beta female

beta female noun: a female that is second in a social or group hierarchy; subordinate to an alpha female but superior to an omega female.

Noun

beta female (plural beta females)

  1. A female that is second in a social or group hierarchy; subordinate to an alpha female but superior to an omega female.
    • In seventeen instances, an alpha female approached a beta female while both were alone, and they mated.2009, Joan Roughgarden, Evolution’s Rainbow, →ISBN
    • The alpha female of troop I, with her offspring at her chest, sits next to the beta female.2013 -, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Primate Behavior: Developments in Field and Laboratory Research, →ISBN
  2. A woman who has stereotypically feminine traits, such as being gentle, nurturing, and emotional.
    • The Beta Female is perceptive, emotional, maternal and soft.2012, Sally J. Walker, Screenwriting Secrets in Genre Film, →ISBN
    • The beta female is sensitive: rather than shouting and being aggressive, she shows her discontent with tears and a pouting lip.2013, Anna Madsen, Glamour Puss - a Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Being a Powerful Woman, →ISBN

beta female meaning in Tamil

beta female in Tamil

ஆகாரப் பெண்

Examples of beta female in a sentence

  • Let me get this in focus and ... okay, we got, yes, I think so, the beta female and the omega male, he's a shade darker.2014, Keith McCafferty, Dead Man's Fancy: A Novel, →ISBN, page 161:
  • Bad news for the alpha male and beta female!2013, E. Marx, The Power of Global Teams:

Forms of beta female

pluralbeta females

Questions about beta female

What does beta female mean?
Beta female means a female that is second in a social or group hierarchy; subordinate to an alpha female but superior to an omega female.
What is beta female in Tamil?
Beta female in Tamil is ஆகாரப் பெண். See Beta female meaning in Tamil.
How do you use beta female in a sentence?
Let me get this in focus and ... okay, we got, yes, I think so, the beta female and the omega male, he's a shade darker.
What part of speech is beta female?
Beta female is a noun.
What is the plural of beta female?
The plural of beta female is beta females.

Words near beta female in the dictionary

  1. beta distributions
  2. beta emitter
  3. beta emitters
  4. beta error
  5. beta errors
  6. beta female
  7. beta females
  8. beta fish
  9. beta fishes
  10. beta function
  11. beta functions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beta female (page history and authors); beta female (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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