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 Moth·er n.
 1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
 2. That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
 Alas! poor country! . . . it can not
 Be called our mother, but our grave.   --Shak.
    I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years.   --Landor.
 3. An old woman or matron. [Familiar]
 4. The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
 5. Hysterical passion; hysteria. [Obs.]
 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.

 Pe·trel n.  Zool. Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridæ.  The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to {Oceanites}, {Oceanodroma}, {Procellaria}, and several allied genera.
 Diving petrel, any bird of the genus Pelecanoides.  They chiefly inhabit the southern hemisphere.
 Fulmar petrel, Giant petrel. See Fulmar.
 Pintado petrel, the Cape pigeon. See under Cape.
 Pintado petrel, any one of several small petrels, especially Procellaria pelagica, or Mother Carey's chicken, common on both sides of the Atlantic.
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