(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.
Niece
Definition:
(n.) A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson.
(n.) A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
Example Sentences:
(1) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(2) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
(3) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
(4) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(5) Murrawah Johnson, 20, who is Burragubba’s niece, took time out from revising for her university finals to meet the bankers.
(6) But Ukip is not the NF nor Trump, Nigel Farage is not Le Pen, father, daughter or niece Marion.
(7) The insert consisted of 8 extra copies of a repeating octapeptide coding sequence in the region between codons 51 and 91; it was identified in the proband and a presently unaffected at-risk niece by full sequencing of the open reading frame, and was visualized electrophoretically in the proband and 6 of 12 at-risk relatives.
(8) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
(9) After she died I was sent away to a school and six years on I received a letter – as you do – saying that a Mr John Jarndyce wanted me to be a companion to his niece and nephew.
(10) Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose daughter and niece are among the kidnapped, told Agence France-Presse “Chibok was taken by Boko Haram.
(11) Without sounding like a cynical heartbroken niece, I welcome the Sports Charter and above all hope it will finally bring tolerance and change in one of the most loved games in the world.
(12) Mariela Castro, the daughter of President Raúl Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, has given an unprecedented "no" vote in the Cuban parliament to a workers' rights bill she felt didn't go far enough to prevent discrimination against people with HIV or with unconventional gender identities.
(13) Binnie has said that even when he was young, he looked like a middle-aged woman; she’d pretend to be his niece.
(14) I understand there are rules about uniform,” said one mother, Sian Williams, whose year 7 daughter managed to pass the uniform check, “but to be so strict and allow children to feel that way on their first day of school must have been petrifying for them.” Another parent, Phillipa Turner, wrote on Facebook: “My niece was one of these children sent home today, first day of a new school and she didn’t even make it into the school gates.
(15) His niece showed the typical neurological and metabolic abnormalities of WD.
(16) She is the granddaugher of Jean-Marie Le Pen and the niece of Marine Le Pen, the new party leader, who won the party's highest ever presidential election score of 17.9% in April.
(17) It has also emerged that the current director of public prosecutions in Northern Ireland, Barra McGrory QC, was Gerry Adams's solicitor in 2007 at a time when the Sinn Féin leader was still allegedly holding back information on his niece's allegations about his brother Liam.
(18) Less frequent are uncle and nephew or uncle and niece and, again less frequent, aunt and nephew or niece; grandparents and grandchildren were rarely found.
(19) Only when her 14 year old "niece" was investigated (1) and treated for similar problems she realized hers.
(20) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.