noun. undefined

noun. A female person whose egg unites with a sperm or a male person whose sperm unites with an egg, resulting in the conception of a child or the birth of a child.

noun. A female person who is pregnant with or gives birth to a child except when someone else has legal rights to the child.

noun. A person who adopts a child.

noun. A person who raises a child.

noun. An ancestor; a progenitor.

noun. An organism that produces or generates offspring.

noun. A guardian; a protector.

noun. A parent company.

noun. A source or cause; an origin.

intransitive verb. To act as a parent to; raise and nurture.

intransitive verb. To cause to come into existence; originate.

intransitive verb. To act as a parent.

noun. A father or mother; one who has generated or produced: correlated to child, offspring, descendant.

noun. By extension, any animal in relation to its offspring, or a plant in relation to other plants produced from it; any organism in relation to the individual organisms which it produces by any process of reproduction.

noun. One who or that which produces; an author; a cause; a source.

noun. A kinsman; relative.

Serving as or pertaining to a parent or source.

noun. One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

noun. That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter.

noun. See Mother cell, under Mother, also Cytula.

noun. a nucleus which, in cell division, divides, and gives rise to two or more daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis, and Cell division, under Division.

noun. A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.

verb. To act as parent, to raise or rear.

verb. bring up

noun. a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

noun. an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

"Now, here is plainly an abundant opportunity for congenital variations; for it is seen that each individual does not come from germ material _identical with that from which either parent came, but from some of this material mixed with a similar amount from a different parent_."

child  daughter  offspring  son  

foster  

parent company  parentage  parental  parenthood  parenting  

being  organism  

cradle  fledge  foster  

aberrant  apparent  declarant  emerant  errant  

bird  bow  capital  conditions  daughter  

agent  ancestor  ancestorial  ancestral  ancestress  

parented  parenting  parents