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Echo :: Echo (n.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice..

Seid :: Seid (n.) A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.

Eldest :: Eldest (a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder..

Father-in-law :: Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Filiate :: Filiate (v. t.) To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.

Filicide :: Filicide (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder..

Diaster :: Diaster (n.) A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis..

Hygeia :: Hygeia (n.) The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius..

Daughter :: Daughter (n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

Circean :: Circean (a.) Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught..

Marian :: Marian (a.) Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII..

Niece :: Niece (n.) A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law..

Merchet :: Merchet (n.) In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters..

Pleiades :: Pleiades (n. pl.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky..

Matricide :: Matricide (n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

Ceres :: Ceres (n.) The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage..

Elder :: Elder (a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc..

Stepson :: Stepsister (n.) A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..

Dutiful :: Dutiful (a.) Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject..

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