(Polari) I, me / (Polari) You; He, she (referring to someone who previously used your mother to refer to herself or himself)

plural of Mother Superior

The head of a convent; an abbess.

The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language. / The language spoken by one’s ancestors.

The hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells; nacre. / A butterfly of the genus Salamis.

Made from or looking like mother-of-pearl; iridescent or pearly.

A woman who gives birth to a child not her own, with the intent to give that child up to at least one of the biological parents once it is born.

A woman who has adopted a child, as opposed to a biological mother.

Cape Town

The woman from whom one inherits half of one's DNA and who is the source of one's mitochondrial DNA.