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One's female child.
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A female descendant.
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A woman considered as if in a relationship of child to parent: a daughter of the nation.
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One personified or regarded as a female descendant: "Culturally Japan is a daughter of Chinese civilization” ( Edwin O. Reischauer).
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Physics The immediate product of the radioactive decay of an element.
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