A quality, institution, place, etc., that produces, protects, nurtures, or sustains people, ideas, etc. A country, city, etc., in relation to its…

Applied to a person. A begetter. Obsolete.

A woman who gives birth, a mother. Also: (esp. in later use) a woman viewed (only or primarily) as someone who bears children.

A person who or (now chiefly) an animal (esp. a horse) which begets offspring; a procreator, begetter. Formerly also (Scottish): †a parent.

A person who begets a child; a procreator; a parent.

A person who or thing which procreates; a parent; a creator.

A person who begets or produces offspring; (now chiefly) a person who causes a race to continue in being by procreation.

= procreatress, n.

That which breeds or produces offspring.

A female procreator, a mother.

A generative power or agency, personified as female.

An animal that reproduces rapidly or in large numbers. Obsolete. rare.

An animal or plant considered in relation to its offspring.

A female propagator.

colloquial. A person who bears or begets a child; a parent.