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Linguistics

Great Vowel Shift

zinc yeast; zinc-enriched yeast

Linguistics

diphthong

western pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea); pearly everlasting

wife's mother; mother-in-law

wife's mother; mother-in-law

Proverb; From a tale about Mencius' mother admonishing him from leaving school early by cutting apart a cloth she was in the middle of weaving

(the lesson that) one should not leave things unfinished

Proverb

our debt to our parents is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea

housewives' choral group; mothers' chorus group

Mathematics

denominator and numerator

Linguistics

diphthong

Art, aesthetics

Virgin and Child; Virgin Mary and baby Jesus

Geology

oil shale

Humble

one's mother

your mother

expressed breast milk

Abbreviation

direct breastfeeding (as opposed to giving expressed breast milk)

common denominator

pollen mother cell

nucleus (of a project proposal, of a social movement, etc.)

(one's) step-parents

comb jelly (any jellyfish-like animal of the phylum Ctenophora)

iron yeast; iron-enriched yeast

copper yeast; copper-enriched yeast