procreatrixn.

1593 P. Stubbes Motiue to Good Wks. 18 The earth the mother and procreatrix of all things.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Procreatrice, a procreatrix; a mother, or damme.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια v. 337 The Sun..is a healthfull and fruitfull Starre, because it is the parent and procreatrix of al things.

1936 B. Barclay Carter tr. M. Montessori Secret of Childhood (1963) iii. i. 229 The maternal instinct is not confined to the mother, though she, as direct procreatrix of the species, has the largest share in this task of protection.

1979 N. Reeves Womankind (1982) iii. x. 95 Aeschylus has Apollo assert: The mother is not procreatrix to her child; She only the awakened life doth keep and bear.

2000 M. A. Doll Like Letters in Running Water ii. vii. 119 Nature appears frequently, in the genre of old French romance, whose function as procreatrix is to regulate the use of the organs of generation for species survival.