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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breed, reproduce |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, engender, father, fecundate, fertilize, generate, grow, impregnate, increase, inseminate, make pregnant, mother, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, proliferate, raise, sire |
| Antonyms: | destroy, kill |
| Main Entry: | reproduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make something new; give birth |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, breed, engender, father, fecundate, generate, hatch, impregnate, mother, multiply, procreate, produce young, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, repopulate, sire, spawn |
| Antonyms: | abort, kill |
| Main Entry: | source |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; point of supply |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, result |
| Main Entry: | spawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce |
| Synonyms: | bring forth, create, father, generate, give rise to, hatch, issue, make, mother, originate, parent, procreate, reproduce, sire |
| Antonyms: | destroy |
| Main Entry: | woman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | female human |
| Synonyms: | Ms./Miss/Mrs., aunt, daughter, gentlewoman, girl, girlfriend, grandmother, matron, mother, niece, she, spouse, wife |
| Antonyms: | man |
| Main Entry: | biological parent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birth mother or father |
| Synonyms: | biological father, biological mother, birth father, birth mother, birth parent, father, mother, natural parent |
| Main Entry: | birth parent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | biological parent |
| Synonyms: | biological father, biological mother, birth father, birth mother, birth parent, father, mother, natural parent |
| Main Entry: | matriarch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ruler |
| Synonyms: | dame, dignified woman, dowager, grande dame, matron, mother, queen |
| Antonyms: | patriarch |
| Main Entry: | matron |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | woman |
| Synonyms: | administrator, biddy, dame, dowager, grande dame, housekeeper, housemother, lady, matriarch, mother, superintendent, wife |
| Antonyms: | patron |
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