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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| 释义 | society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > motherhood > [adjective] > that is a mother (3) mothera1400 With sense ‘designating an animal that is a mother, or (more generally) is of breeding age’, as mother cat, mother cow, mother sheep, etc. matern?a1513 That is a mother; (also) maternal, related on the mother's side. maternal1748 That is a mother. Now chiefly in maternal parent (sometimes as a circumlocution for mother; also applied to plants). |
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