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单词 mother cat
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mother cat
b. With sense ‘designating an animal that is a mother, or (more generally) is of breeding age’, as mother cat, mother cow, mother sheep, etc.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > motherhood > [adjective] > that is a mother
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 14969 (MED) A moder ass yee sal þar find, And yee hir sal vn-do Vte of hir band.
?1465 R. Calle in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 136 (note) There lefte be-hynde of Heylesdon folde of my mastre schepe xlj modreschep.
1506 T. Pynnowe Will in A. Jobson Window in Suffolk (1962) i. 21 I bequethe to eche of my godchildren a mother scheep.
1630 in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 74 No Trinck shall stand to fish before any Breach Mouth at the rising or sinking of any Mother-Fishes, or in the Time of Spawn or Brood of Fishes.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 99 The Mother Cow must wear a low'ring look. View more context for this quotation
1793 W. Cowper Tale 45 The mother-bird is gone to sea.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Zapolya ii. i. 77 The mother-falcon hath her nest above it.
1867 Daily Herald (San Antonio, Texas) 20 June The term maverick which was formerly applied to unbranded yearlings is now applied to every calf which can be separated from the mother cow.
1882 E. A. Floyer Unexplored Baluchistan 202 Then there were four old mother goats.
1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby xi. 278 I..particularly remember one snow-white mother-kangaroo I once saw, a rare and beautiful creature.
1946 Nature 26 Oct. 586/2 Both ascribe recent failures of efforts to raise the population of remnants of natural oyster beds to inadequate properties of the mother-oysters used.
1975 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 2 July 3 The gill nets..were scooping up all the large or ‘mother’ cod.
1981 E. Jolley Newspaper Claremont St. iii. 22 Weekly..had been more and more filled with admiration for this mother cat.
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