Gaby was the eldest female of the group and the second eldest in general.

As usual, she wore the sapphire pendant she had inherited as the eldest female of her Blood.

The eldest female of all of the branches were accustomed to some distinction of station or dignity (sthanam).

She was the third and eldest female of the ten Jmoudsky siblings.

Herds are made up of related females and their young, directed by the eldest female, called the matriarch.

Among the nobility, a title may often descend through the eldest female, in the absence of an immediate male line.

As the party died down and guests drifted off, I sat back and saw us - my grandmother, my mother, myself, my daughter, a line of eldest females.

In the remaining 4 nests where the eldest female did not become queen, 75% of the new queens were subsequently superseded by the eldest in the nest.

Then the eldest female of the oldest hereditary stock, the wahine ariki, would eat the ear of the first enemy killed in battle.

The females spend their entire lives in tight-knit matrilineal family groups, some of which are made up of more than ten members, including three pairs of mothers with offspring, and are led by the eldest female, or matriarch.