: a woman who hunts game
also
: a female animal that hunts prey
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Striking six-foot-tall huntress Haley Fitzgerald of Spruced Plume hunts to eat.
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Pure Evil dispatches Fianna (Rachel House), a huntress who shoots fire lasers from her eyes, to secure the map by any means necessary.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
Are Antlers Horns? (Credit:Chamois huntress/Shutterstock) Frequently used interchangeably, antlers and horns are quite different.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
Yet even as Daisy Ridley acts with a wary urgency, the upshot is that Helena, raised not by wolves but by a kind of human wolf, is supposed to be a huntress to her bones.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Pure Evil dispatches Fianna (Rachel House), a huntress who shoots fire lasers from her eyes, to secure the map by any means necessary.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
Are Antlers Horns? (Credit:Chamois huntress/Shutterstock) Frequently used interchangeably, antlers and horns are quite different.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
Yet even as Daisy Ridley acts with a wary urgency, the upshot is that Helena, raised not by wolves but by a kind of human wolf, is supposed to be a huntress to her bones.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
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“Huntress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/huntress. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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huntress
noun
hunt·ress
ˈhən-trəs 
: a woman who hunts game
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