parent : Idioms & Phrases

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adoptive parent

  • noun a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
    adopter.
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female parent

  • noun a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
    mother.
    • the mother of three children
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Foster parent

  • noun a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child
    foster parent.
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  • a foster mother or foster father.
Webster 1913

foster-parent

  • noun a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child
    foster parent.
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male parent

  • noun a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
    begetter; father.
    • his father was born in Atlanta
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Parent cell

  • . (Biol.) See Mother cell, under Mother, also Cytula.
Webster 1913

Parent nucleus

  • (Biol.), a nucleus which, in cell division, divides, and gives rise to two or more daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis, and Cell division, under Division.
Webster 1913