plural of Great Mother

(paganism, archaeology) Earth Mother

Alternative form of everyone and his mother

(religion) A personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.

plural of cow-mother

A nickname for Virginia.

A cell that forms four megaspores by meiosis; a megasporocyte.

(linguistics, anthropology) The style of speech and manners which are to be observed between an Australian aboriginal man and his mother-in-law (i.e. wife's mother). Depending on the particular people, this can go so as far as an entirely separate vocabulary of words.

A small apartment attached to or carved out of a nominally single-family house, ostensibly intended for occupancy by a mother-in-law or other relative, but potentially also rented out to a stranger.

A person who is in great need of something will find a way to obtain it.