surrogate mother
1Surrogate mother — Sur ro*gate mother, n. 1. a person or who serves in place of the biological mother for child, as for caring or nurturing. [PJC] 2. a female animal that raises and nurses the offspring of another animal. [PJC] 3. a woman who becomes pregnant by an …
2surrogate mother — n. A woman who bears a child for another couple, either by having her own egg fertilized with the husband’s sperm or by having an embryo made from the couple’s gametes implanted in her uterus, and after birth surrenders her parental rights to the …
3surrogate mother — n a woman who becomes pregnant usu. by artificial insemination or surgical implantation of a fertilized egg for the purpose of carrying the fetus to term for another woman surrogate motherhood n * * * a woman who becomes pregnant (by artificial… …
4surrogate mother — also surrogate n a woman who has a baby for another woman who cannot have one, and then gives her the baby after it is born …
5surrogate mother — surrogate mothers N COUNT A surrogate mother is a woman who has agreed to give birth to a baby on behalf of another woman …
6surrogate mother — noun count a woman who gives birth to a baby for another woman who cannot have children …
7surrogate mother — ► NOUN ▪ a woman who bears a child on behalf of another woman, either from her own egg or from having a fertilized egg from the other woman implanted in her womb …
8surrogate mother — noun a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father s semen and carries the fetus to term • Hypernyms: ↑mother, ↑female parent * * * noun, pl ⋯ ers [count] …
9surrogate mother — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms surrogate mother : singular surrogate mother plural surrogate mothers a woman who gives birth to a baby for another woman who cannot have children …
10surrogate mother — noun Date: 1978 a woman who becomes pregnant usually by artificial insemination or surgical implantation of a fertilized egg for the purpose of carrying the fetus to term for another woman • surrogate motherhood noun …
