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Noun[edit]
beta female (plural beta females)
- A female that is second in a social or group hierarchy; subordinate to an alpha female but superior to an omega female.
2009, Joan Roughgarden, Evolution’s Rainbow, →ISBN:
In seventeen instances, an alpha female approached a beta female while both were alone, and they mated.
2013 -, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Primate Behavior: Developments in Field and Laboratory Research, →ISBN:
The alpha female of troop I, with her offspring at her chest, sits next to the beta female.
2014, Keith McCafferty, Dead Man's Fancy: A Novel, →ISBN, page 161:
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.
- A woman who has stereotypically feminine traits, such as being gentle, nurturing, and emotional.
2012, Sally J. Walker, Screenwriting Secrets in Genre Film, →ISBN:
The Beta Female is perceptive, emotional, maternal and soft.
2013, Anna Madsen, Glamour Puss - a Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Being a Powerful Woman, →ISBN:
The beta female is sensitive: rather than shouting and being aggressive, she shows her discontent with tears and a pouting lip.
2013, E. Marx, The Power of Global Teams:
She demonstrated in her research that a combination of masculine and feminine dispositions is more adaptive than stereotypial extremes. Bad news for the alpha male and beta female!
