SURROGATE MOTHER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so

Example:

a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("surrogate mother" is a kind of...):

female parent; mother (a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother))

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