the death of one's mother
(zoology, medicine) mother's body; (chemistry etc) parent; matrix; (statistics) population; parent population
mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest
parent shell (of a cluster bomb)
machine tool; mother ship
home port (of a ship or fleet)
generating line; generatrix (in geometry); bus (in electronics); bus bar
native language; mother tongue; (linguistics) parent language
parent material (e.g. the eroded rock making up sediment)
motif (loanword); main idea; theme
substitute for mother's milk; milk powder
generating function (math.)
(statistics) population; parent population
tigress; (fig.) fierce woman; vixen
vowel harmony (in phonetics)
mother-to-infant transmission
wife's mother; mother-in-law
aunt; wife of father's elder brother; (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
foster mother; adoptive mother
denominator of a fraction
aunt; wife of father's younger brother
consonant; the initial consonant (of a Chinese syllable)
aunt; father's sister; paternal aunt
aunt; mother's sister; maternal aunt
aunt; wife of father's younger brother
letter (of the alphabet); letters of an alphabet; alphabet; character; grapheme
wife's mother, mother-in-law
term of respect for your teacher's wife; wife of one's teacher (or master); teacher's wife; master's wife
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
matricide; to commit matricide
father and mother; parents
(literary) paternal grandmother
natural mother; birth mother
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus)
father's mother; paternal grandmother
aunt; wife of mother's brother; maternal uncle's wife
aircraft carrier; abbr. for
航空母艦
nut (female component of nut and bolt); star nut
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
medial and final of a Chinese syllable (excluding initial consonant and tone); the rhyming part of a Chinese syllable; rhyme; vowel; character used in traditional phonetics to indicate value of rhyme; final sound; phoneme
female brothel keeper; a bawd
wife's mother; mother-in-law; same as 丈母
foster parents; adoptive parents
deceased paternal grandmother
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
mother's mother; maternal grandmother
(military) cluster bomb; shrapnel
father's father's mother; paternal great-grandmother
comb jellies (Ctenophora)
mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
biological parents; natural parents
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus or L. cardiaca)
aunt; father's father's sister; great aunt
nut (female component of nut and bolt)
absence of initial consonant; a Chinese syllable having no initial consonant (starting directly with the medial vowel)
(of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant
in place of sb's parents; in loco parentis (law)
aunt; father's father's brother's wife; great aunt
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers; half (brother or sister)
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers; half (brother or sister)
diphthong; compound vowel
capital letters; uppercase letters
order of letters in an alphabet
sessile medusa; sea anemone
great-grandmother (mother's grandmother)
freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta)
immortal jellyfish; Turritopsis dohrnii
to have lost both one's parents
aircraft carrier; (coll.) (fig.) sth huge; (like) a whale
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood; one's bread and butter
a good wife and loving mother
thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
lowest common denominator
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
carrier-based vanguard group (CBVG); naval battle group led by an aircraft carrier