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A female person who is pregnant with or gives birth to a child.
(noun)
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A female person whose egg unites with a sperm, resulting in the conception of a child.
(noun)
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A woman who adopts a child.
(noun)
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A woman who raises a child.
(noun)
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A female parent of an animal.
(noun)
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A female who has given birth to offspring
(noun)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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(as modifier)
(noun)
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A person's own mother
(noun)
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A female substituting in the function of a mother
(noun)
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A term of address for an old woman
(noun)
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Motherly qualities, such as maternal affection
(noun)
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(in combination)
(noun)
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A female or thing that creates, nurtures, protects, etc, something
(noun)
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A title given to certain members of female religious orders
(noun)
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God as the eternal Principle
(noun)
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Native or innate
(noun)
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To give birth to or produce
(verb)
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To nurture, protect, etc as a mother
(verb)
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