As befits a queen, a bumblebee female is rather choosy and may spend considerable time searching for a suitable nesting place.

But his is still a simple life relatively free of the female presence or influence, and he must go far, even though he may go fast, for sophisticated pleasures.

) Miss Marple may thus be considered a female version of that staple of British detective fiction, the gentleman detective.

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

United Methodist bishops may be male or female, with the Rev.

CME Church bishops may be male or female.

In some smaller Protestant denominations and independent churches the term bishop is used in the same way as pastor, to refer to the leader of the local congregation, and may be male or female.

In a few Western countries female toplessness at a beach is acceptable, although it may not be acceptable in the town center.

Some people show a sexual interest in female breasts distinct from that of the person, which may be regarded as a breast fetish.

A drag queen may imitate famous female film or pop-music stars.

Once the female chooses a partner, the mated pair may remain temporarily monogamous for a number of years.

" Seashells ", or conchae in Latin, may be a metaphor for something else such as female genitalia ( perhaps the troops visited brothels ) or boats ( perhaps they captured several small British boats ).

Such scholars purport that passages in scripture related to slavery, war, genocide, female marginalization, and sex between men may not necessarily be about God's wishes, but rather about the predominant culture's opinions at the time of the passage's writing.

The common chimpanzee lives in a fission-fusion society and may be found in groups of the following types: all-male, adult females and offspring, consisting of both sexes, or one female and her offspring.

Nevertheless, the status of an adult female may be important for her offspring.

He has indicated that the institution of the Dalai Lama may be abolished in the future, and also that the next Dalai Lama may be found outside Tibet and may be female.

For instance a male model who sustains a scarring tissue to his face may obtain just as much as a female.

Note that a dominatrix does not necessarily dominate a male partner ; a dominatrix may well have female submissives, nor must the role of a dominatrix involve pain toward the submissive ; her domination can be verbal, involving humiliating tasks and servitude.

Women, when not " dolls ", " Judies ", " pancakes ", " tomatoes ", " broads " or what have you, may be " characters of a female nature ", for example.

It may have been in The Englishwoman ’ s Journal, first issued in 1858, that Elizabeth first read of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who had become the first female doctor in the United States in 1849.

Without any effort, Munch had a steady stream of female models, some of whom he may have had sexual relations with, and who were the subjects of numerous nude paintings.

Most instances of elves in ballads are male ; the only commonly encountered female elf is the Queen of Elfland, who appears in Thomas the Rhymer and The Queen of Elfland's Nourice, in which a woman is abducted to be a wet-nurse to the queen's baby, but promised that she may return home once the child is weaned.

Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife ( empress consort ), mother ( empress dowager ), or a woman who rules in her own right ( empress regnant ).

Most squads are coed, but the number of all-female college squads is rapidly increasing, in an effort to give female cheerleaders, especially bases, who have cheered on all-girl high school or all-star squads an opportunity to cheer at the collegiate level without making the transition to a coed squad.

The cosmogenic myth common in Sumeria was that of the hieros gamos, a sacred marriage where divine principles in the form of dualistic opposites came together as male and female to give birth to the cosmos.

Suicide or " martyrdom operations " are a lethal technique among radical Islamists, sometimes motivated by the much disputed explanation that " God will give " those who kill themselves in the path of jihad 70 or 72 female " virgins " and " everlasting happiness.

As a result, little in history has been documented to give an accurate description of how female homosexuality has been expressed.

Although there are these discrepancies, Packman tries to give a pattern to the female role designations of Plautus.

:" It has recently come to our ears, not without great pain to us, that in some parts of upper Germany, [...] Mainz, Koin, Trier, Salzburg, and Bremen, many persons of both sexes, heedless of their own salvation and forsaking the catholic faith, give themselves over to devils male and female, and by their incantations, charms, and conjurings, and by other abominable superstitions and sortileges, offences, crimes, and misdeeds, ruin and cause to perish the offspring of women, the foal of animals, the products of the earth, the grapes of vines, and the fruits of trees, as well as men and women, cattle and flocks and herds and animals of every kind, vineyards also and orchards, meadows, pastures, harvests, grains and other fruits of the earth ; that they afflict and torture with dire pains and anguish, both internal and external, these men, women, cattle, flocks, herds, and animals, and hinder men from begetting [...]"

Sperm cells that give rise to female ( XX ) offspring after fertilization differ in that they carry an X-chromosome, while sperm cells that give rise to male ( XY ) offspring carry a Y-chromosome.

Some say he was transgender, and one ancient text states that he offered half the empire to the physician who could give him female genitalia.

Even such apparently unambiguous concepts such as gender can be subject to vagueness problems, not just from transsexuals ' gender transitions but also from certain genetic conditions which can give an individual both male and female biological traits ( see intersexual ).

** Megaspores ( or macrospores ): meiospores that give rise to a female gametophyte, ( in seed plants the gametophyte forms within the ovule ).

These plants produce microspores and megaspores, which give rise to gametophytes that are functionally male or female, respectively.

In 1749, Richardson's female friends started asking him to create a male figure as virtuous as his heroines " Pamela " and " Clarissa " in order to " give the world his idea of a good man and fine gentleman combined ".

To give an additional female example from a later date, whenever the vivacious mezzo-soprano of the 1920s and ' 30s, Conchita Supervia, performed in London, she was admonished in print for her exceedingly vibrant and fluttery tone, which was unkindly likened by her detractors to the chatter of a machine-gun or the rattle of dice in a cup.

The narrative continues by stating that Hashem gave Moses a response to give to the elders, namely that the daughters must each marry someone from the Gilead clan, but they are otherwise unrestricted in their choice ; the narrative also states that the general case was to be applied-that inheritances cannot pass between tribes, but instead any female that inherits land is compelled to marry someone from the same clan as her father.

Meanwhile the latter's caretakers, named Hamadryad and Ishtar, both give birth to female clones of him, their Y-chromosome being replaced by an identical copy of the X chromosome, producing " daughters " named Lapis Lazuli and Lorelei Lee.

It was believed that eating Jumis would cause woman or female animal to give birth to twins.

Traditionally, there was a cultural expectation that a female would not engage in premarital sex and would come to her wedding a virgin, which would be indicated by the bride wearing a white gown, and that she would " give up " her virginity to her new husband in the act of consummation of the marriage.

A man who accidentally takes another clan's totem animals must give it either an adult male or female member of that animal's clan.

The Grange was one of the first national organizations to give equal status to female members.

These injected blastocysts are then implanted into a pseudo pregnant female surrogate mouse which will bring the embryos to term and give birth to a mouse whose germline is derived from the donor mouse's ES cells.

The use of molded fiberglass using negative (" female ") molds ( which give a nearly finished product ) is prevalent in the series production of many modern sailplanes.

In 1913, Carl Jung proposed the Electra complex as he both believed that bisexuality did not lie at the origin of psychic life, and that Freud did not give adequate description to the female child.

It should still be acknowledged that the style could have been crafted to give the impression of a female martyr ’ s diary.

However, there is a significant tradition in French-language operas of the 19th Century to give the leading female role to mezzos, as for example in Béatrice et Bénédict, La Damnation de Faust, Don Quichotte, La Favorite, Mignon, Samson et Dalila, Les Troyens, and Werther as well as Carmen.