foster mother 养母
- Tom was a heel for refusing support his foster mother.
汤姆是个孽子,因为他拒绝扶养他的养母。 - Our attitudes are our foster mother who determine our fate.
态度,是决定我们命运的养母。 - Coordinate the Foster Care Program. Select foster families, train foster mother, place children in foster home
协调孩子寄养计划。挑选寄养家庭、孩子到寄养家庭、访寄养家庭。
foster mother[ noun ]
a woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child
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Foster \Fos"ter\, a. [AS. f[=o]ster, f[=o]stor, nourishment. See
{Foster}, v. t.]
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing
nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child,
brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands
in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards
sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
{Foster babe} or {Foster child}, an infant or child nursed or
raised by a woman not its mother, or bred by a man not its
father.
{Foster brother}, {Foster sister}, one who is, or has been,
nursed at the same breast, or brought up by the same nurse
as another, but is not of the same parentage.
{Foster dam}, one who takes the place of a mother; a nurse.
--Dryden.
{Foster earth}, earth by which a plant is nourished, though
not its native soil. --J. Philips.
{Foster father}, a man who takes the place of a father in
caring for a child. --Bacon.
{Foster land}.
(a) Land allotted for the maintenance of any one. [Obs.]
(b) One's adopted country.
{Foster lean} [foster + AS. l[ae]n a loan See {Loan}.],
remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster child;
also, the jointure of a wife. [Obs.] --Wharton.
{Foster mother}, a woman who takes a mother's place in the
nurture and care of a child; a nurse.
{Foster nurse}, a nurse; a nourisher. [R.] --Shak.
{Foster parent}, a foster mother or foster father.
{Foster son}, a male foster child.