Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
omega female en · NOUN
Meanings
-
A low-status and subordinate female; a female at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
Chemukh had once been in danger of becoming the omega female.
2019, Jim Dutcher, Jamie Dutcher, Running with Wolves: Our Story of Life with the Sawtooth Pack, page 137:What about an omega, do you have any omega male or omega female amongst your classmates?
2010, Jose A. Fadul, Ronan S. Estoque, A Workbook for an Introductory Course in Sociology, page 33:Later, this omega female, who was a virtual outcast for several weeks, regained her status in the pack by joining the dominant female when her litter was born and acting as a maiden aunt or dry nurse.
2012, Patricia Pliner, Nonverbal Communication of Aggression:
Forms