A source or origin.
A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
A striking example.
Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
Motherfucker.
The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
A pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
A female ancestor.
Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
Any person or entity which performs mothering.
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
To develop mother.
To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
The source or origin of something.
A surrogate parent
An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
A parent company.
One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material
Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
To act as parent, to raise or rear.