(n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
(n.) A female descendant; a woman.
(n.) A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.
(n.) A term of address indicating parental interest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(2) Sara Tomlinson, 45, received a text message from her 16 year old daughter Katie at about 3pm.
(3) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(4) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(5) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
(6) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(7) Each daughter merozoite receives a branch or piece of the parent organelle.
(8) Reticulate acropigmentation of Kitamura in a mother and her daughter is reported.
(9) In two cases that showed punctate or linear low density structures adjacent to the distal side of the tumor nodules to the porta hepatis, a daughter nodule was detected by CT at 6.5 and 9.2 months, respectively, after the appearance of the low density structures.
(10) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(11) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
(12) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(13) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(14) Della Roe, Dhu’s mother, said the loss of her daughter had triggered an emotional breakdown.
(15) Against the current climate of hospital closure programmes and community care, attitudes to caregiving were examined in three groups of carers, namely mothers caring for a mentally handicapped child, mothers caring for a mentally handicapped adult and daughters caring for a parent with dementia.
(16) Her mother had only senile pigmented modification of the fundus and her three daughters had mild macular pigmented changes, like "salt and pepper."
(17) The comments that mothers make that they think are helpful are the comments daughters interpret as critical."
(18) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(19) Daughter-strand gaps in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesized after exposure of excision-deficient Escherichia coli to ultraviolet light are filled during subsequent incubation in buffer, and the rate of filling is increased when the incubation in buffer is carried out in the presence of 360-nm light.
(20) Zelaya's food comes separately and is prepared by his daughter because he fears being poisoned.
Filial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.
(a.) Bearing the relation of a child.
Example Sentences:
(1) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(2) Factors affecting the development of filial preferences in chicks were investigated.
(3) Recent studies have attempted to test predictions from an interpretation of filial imprinting as a form of associative learning.
(4) The results indicate that the extend to which stimulus movement enhances filial imprinting depends on the relation between the chicks behavior and the timing of the stimulus movement.
(5) The Chinese attitude is explained in part by well-known features of traditional Chinese culture, such as filial piety and familism.
(6) Results indicate that prematurely stimulated chicks require species-typical auditory and visual stimulation earlier in postnatal development than do normally reared chicks to direct their filial behavior.
(7) Usually, 1 sequence developed in a parental generation host individual that was infected per os as a larva and the other 2 developed concurrently in a filial host larva that was infected transovarially.
(8) A nonparametric analysis of the observed proportions of mice expressing parental phenotypes in second filial, two first backcross and one second backcross generations confirmed the polymorphism to be genetically determined and consistent with a single-locus mode of inheritance.
(9) These results demonstrate the importance of normal social experience in the development of the visual imprinting of filial behavior in ducklings.
(10) The results seem to support the general hypothesis that creativity is related to parental identification as a function of a less conventional sex-role stereotype, and the more specific hypothesis that there is a relation between paternal masculinity-femininity and filial creativity.
(11) Several of the young people she interviewed saw filial piety as a basic requirement in a spouse .
(12) Both the transovarial and the filial infection rates appear to be very low.
(13) The present study describes the growth abnormalities of cultured human skin fibroblasts derived from normal-appearing cutaneous biopsies of ACR genotypes and a portion of the clinically asymptomatic ACR progeny, first filial generation, and their differential susceptibility to transformation by Kirsten murine sarcoma virus.
(14) The marked variability of psychiatric and neurological features of Huntington's chorea is described in a large family consisting of 31 members of two filial generations and the parenteral generation, of which 13 members showed manifest signs of the disease, while two further members died probably in a preliminary stage of the disease.
(15) Analysis of the offspring body weights on Days 1, 7 and 21 of lactation revealed consistently and generally significant lower mean values in the high-dose male and female animals of all filial generations.
(16) She internalises this filial duty so completely as to take on herself a duty of despising her mother, and, by extension, all the women around her.
(17) Filial motivations reflect the values Koreans are aspiring for today that consolidate the caring relationships between adult children and their elderly parents.
(18) The present experiments indicate that the filial response to conspecifics is dependent on olfactory experience.
(19) The reaction to X-rays has so far been followed through 9 filial generations.
(20) As the family-kinship system of Korean immigrants changes toward the conjugal family, it is contended that their traditional expectation of filial piety should be modified.