SURROGATE MOTHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surrogate mother mean? 

• SURROGATE MOTHER (noun)
  The noun SURROGATE MOTHER has 1 sense:

1. a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so

  Familiarity information: SURROGATE MOTHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURROGATE MOTHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term

Hypernyms ("surrogate mother" is a kind of...):

female parent; mother (a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother))

 Context examples 

The scientists implanted 21 ova into surrogate mother monkeys, resulting in six pregnancies, two of which produced living animals.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)