Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mother.

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  • In which definition, three several operations are specified — altrix, auctrix, procreatrix; the first is [979] nutrition, whose object is nourishment, meat, drink, and the like; his organ the liver in sensible creatures; in plants, the root or sap.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • From infancy to maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix.

    Ulysses 2003

  • From infancy to maturity he had resembled his maternal procreatrix.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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