foster parent

Historical Examples of foster parent

• His first war was with the city of Alba Longa, the foster-parent of Rome.

  Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15)

  Charles Morris

• The various Orders all lay practically the same duties on the foster-parent.

  English Poor Law Policy

  Sidney Webb

• Biochemistry came into being and, with Liebig as foster-parent, grew into modern Physiology.

  Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists

  Various

• Professor Lloyd Morgan was foster-parent to two moorhens which grew up in isolation from their kindred.

  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4)

  J. Arthur Thomson

• The cowbird hatched and reared by the sparrow, or the warbler, or the vireo does not sing the song of the foster-parent.

  Ways of Nature

  John Burroughs