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n. One who begets, gives birth to, or nurtures and raises a child; a father or mother.

n. An ancestor; a progenitor.

n. An organism that produces or generates offspring.

n. A guardian; a protector.

n. A parent company.

n. A source or cause; an origin: Despair is the parent of rebellion.

v. To act as a parent to; raise and nurture: "A genitor who does not parent the child is not its parent” ( Ashley Montagu).

v. To cause to come into existence; originate.

verb-intransitive. To act as a parent.

n. A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.

v. To act as parent, to raise or rear.

n. One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

n. That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter.

n. A father or mother; one who has generated or produced: correlated to child, offspring, descendant.

n. By extension, any animal in relation to its offspring, or a plant in relation to other plants produced from it; any organism in relation to the individual organisms which it produces by any process of reproduction.

n. One who or that which produces; an author; a cause; a source.

n. A kinsman; relative.

Serving as or pertaining to a parent or source.

v. bring up

n. a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

n. an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

"And I used the term parent in the loosest sense of the word."

offspring    child    son    daughter   

parented    parenting    parents   

being    organism   

foster   

fledge    foster    cradle   

parenthood    parentage    parental    parent company    parenting   

cause    source    author    begetter    father    mother    origin   

aberrant    apparent    declarant    emerant    errant    inherent    transparent   

mother    family    member    teacher    individual    master    servant    lover    one    youth