| mother hen | a hen with chicks |
Mother Carey's chicken
Mother Carey's hen
Oceanites oceanicus | medium-sized storm petrel |
CPU board
mother board | the main circuit board for a computer |
Mother Hubbard
muumuu | a woman's loose unbelted dress |
| mother's milk | milk secreted by a woman who has recently given birth |
common sense
good sense
gumption
horse sense
sense mother wit | sound practical judgment, Common sense is not so common, he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples, fortunately she had the good sense to run away |
| mother | a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation, necessity is the mother of invention |
mother tongue
maternal language
first language | one's native language, the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next |
fatherland
homeland
motherland
mother country
country of origin
native land | the country where you were born |
nacreous cloud
mother-of-pearl cloud | a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon |
| earth mother | the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility |
Cybele
Dindymene
Great Mother
Magna Mater
Mater Turrita | great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor, counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops |
| Mother Goose | the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes |
abbess
mother superior
prioress | the superior of a group of nuns |
b asshole
bastard
cocksucker
dickhead
shit
mother fucker
motherfucker
prick
whoreson son of a bitch
SOB | insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous |
| den mother | a woman who supervises a den of Cub Scouts |
| den mother | someone who plays the role of a den mother, he serves as den mother to all the freshmen in this dormitory, she's the den mother to new secretaries |
foster-mother
foster mother | a woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child |
mother
female parent | a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother), the mother of three children |
| mother | a term of address for a mother superior |
| mother | a term of address for an elderly woman |
| mother figure | a woman who evokes the feelings usually reserved for a mother |
| mother hen | a person who cares for the needs of others (especially in an overprotective or interfering way) |
| mother-in-law | the mother of your spouse |
mother's boy
mamma's boy
mama's boy | a boy excessively attached to his mother, lacking normal masculine interests |
| mother's daughter | a daughter who is favored by and similar to her mother |
| mother's son | a male person, every mother's son who could walk was there |
| queen mother | a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign |
| surrogate mother | a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so, a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term |
Jones Mother Jones
Mary Harris Jones | United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (-) |
Seton
Elizabeth Seton
Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
Mother Seton | United States religious leader who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized (-) |
Teresa
Mother Teresa
Theresa
Mother Theresa
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu | Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia), dedicated to helping the poor in India (-) |
mother lode
champion lode | the main vein of ore in a deposit |
| mother cell | cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops, a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell |
| spore mother cell | cell from which a spore develops |
dumb cane
mother-in-law plant
mother-in-law's tongue Dieffenbachia sequine | an evergreen plant with large showy dark green leaves, contains a poison that swells the tongue and throat hence the name |
mother-in-law's tongue snake plant
Sansevieria trifasciata | stemless plant having narrow rigid leaves often cultivated as a houseplant |
strawberry geranium
strawberry saxifrage
mother-of-thousands
Saxifraga stolonifera
Saxifraga sarmentosam | eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers, spreads by numerous creeping stolons |
basil thyme
basil balm mother of thyme
Acinos arvensis
Satureja acinos | fragrant European mint having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers, naturalized especially in eastern North America |
mother-of-pearl
nacre | the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell |
| mother | a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria, forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar |
| Mother's Day | second Sunday in May |
beget
get engender
father
mother
sire
generate
bring forth | make children, Abraham begot Isaac, Men often father children but don't recognize them |
mother
fuss
overprotect | care for like a mother, She fusses over her husband |
mother-naked
naked as the day one was born
naked as the day you were born
in one's birthday suit
in your birthday suit | as naked as at birth |