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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

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

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 Trollope, Anthony

A single day in that daughterless house had been enough for me.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

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 Meredith, George