Home › Words › I › illustratressillustratressillustratress means A female illustrator.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, illustratress ranks #42,590 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom illustrator + -ess.nounA female illustrator.e.g.“The specific epithet commemorates my botanical illustratress.” — 1958, New York Botanical Garden, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 10, page 169:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).