daughter
noun
a female child or person in relation to her parents.
daughterless
-
a word derived from
daughter.
Example Sentences
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Cruz, whose father emigrated to the island in 1939, when the population numbered 11, offered a farmer’s perspective to the idea of daughterless mice: “It’s like artificial insemination in cattle,” he said.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017
This so-called daughterless breed could eliminate a native mouse population without environmental poison, without offshore animal relocations, without all the logistical nightmares entailed by the Floreana project.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2017
What! thou shalt suffer, and thine own Maria Will leave thee daughterless, uncomforted?
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
She was not, indeed, an ambassador's daughter, but the niece of a daughterless ambassador, and therefore almost as good as a daughter.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
The great question for the county was debated in many households, daughter-thronged and daughterless, long subsequent to the memorable day of Willoughby's coming of age.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
