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a female parent; the institution, quality or condition that is the cause or originator

female person who has borne children

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Cases of word usage

1) a sister of one's father or mother (aunt)

2) a mother of some kinds of four-footed animals, e.g. horses (dam)

3) (used by an elderly woman to a younger person, or a mother to her child) = dear (deary)

4) mamma, mother (ma)

5) Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ; a picture or statue of her (madonna)

6) of, like, a mother; related through the mother (maternal)

7) (of) being a mother (maternity)

8) a father or mother (parent)

9) either of two children or animals born together of the same mother (twin)

10) of the navel (umbilical cord = the cord connecting an unborn baby to its mother (at her placenta)) (umbilical)

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