oceanodroma furcata

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oceanodroma furcata - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mother \Moth"er\ (m[u^][th]"[~e]r), n. [OE. moder, AS. m[=o]dor;
     akin to D. moeder, OS. m[=o]dar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar,
     Icel. m[=o][eth]ir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ.
     mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr.
     m[=a]t[.r]; cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure. [root]268. Cf.
     Material, Matrix, Metropolis, Father.]
     1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a
        woman who has borne a child.
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     2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of
        birth or origin; generatrix.
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              Alas! poor country! . . . it can not
              Be called our mother, but our grave.  --Shak.
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              I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother
              of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand
              years.                                --Landor.
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     3. An old woman or matron. [Familiar]
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     4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an
        abbess, etc.
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     5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     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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