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/mˈəðər kˈɛriz tʃˈɪkən/ Listen

noun

Mother n.

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix. "Alas! poor country!... it can not Be called our mother, but our grave." "I behold... the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years."

An old woman or matron. (Familiar)

The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.

Hysterical passion; hysteria. (Obs.)

Mother Carey's chicken (Zool.), any one of several species of small petrels, as the stormy petrel (Procellaria pelagica), and Leach's petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), both of the Atlantic, and Oceanodroma furcata of the North Pacific.

Mother Carey's goose (Zool.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar.

Mother's mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a birthmark; a naevus.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mother carey's chicken" Quotes from Famous Books

... A 'Mother Carey's chicken' hovered round the wreck while we were on board, and followed us to the 'Sunbeam;' and although a flat calm and a heavy swell prevailed at the time, we all looked upon our visitor as the harbinger of a breeze. In this instance, at least, the well-known sailor's ...

— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey