单词 | daughter |
释义 | daughter —daughterless, adj. —daughterlike, adj. /daw"teuhr/, n. 1. a female child or person in relation to her parents. 2. any female descendant. 3. a person related as if by the ties binding daughter to parent: daughter of the church. 4. anything personified as female and considered with respect to its origin: The United States is the daughter of the 13 colonies. 5. Chem. , Physics. an isotope formed by radioactive decay of another isotope. adj. 6. Biol. pertaining to a cell or other structure arising from division or replication: daughter cell; daughter DNA. [bef. 950; ME doughter, OE dohtor; c. G Tochter, Gk thygáter, Skt duhita] |
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