daughter

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One's female child.
• noun A female descendant.
• noun A woman considered as if in a relationship of child to parent.
• noun One that is personified or regarded as a female descendant.
• noun The immediate product of the radioactive decay of an element.
• adjective Possessing the characteristics of a daughter; having the relationship of a daughter.
• adjective Of or relating to a cell, organelle, or other structure produced by division or replication.
• adjective Produced by or resulting from the decay of a radioactive element.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A female child, considered with reference to her parents.
• noun A female descendant, in any degree.
• noun A woman viewed as standing in an analogous relationship, as to the parents of her husband (daughter-in-law), to her native country, the church, a guardian or elderly adviser, etc.
• noun Anything (regarded as of the feminine gender) considered with respect to its source, origin, or function: as, the Romance tongues are the daughters of the Latin language.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
• noun A female descendant; a woman.
• noun A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.
• noun A term of address indicating parental interest.
• noun (Biol.) one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under Division.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun One’s female child.
• noun A female descendant.
• noun daughter language

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a female human offspring