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Female parent

noun

A woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother). Synonym: mother. Antonyms: father, male parent.

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... female plant. Mr. Henry fertilised Arabis blepharophylla with pollen of A. soyeri, and the pods thus produced, of which he was so kind as to send me detailed measurements and sketches, were much larger in all their dimensions than those naturally produced by either the male or female parent-species. In a future chapter we shall see that the organs of vegetation in hybrid plants, independently of the character of either parent, are sometimes developed to a monstrous size; and the increased size of the pods in ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

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