co-mother

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) the relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child. .
  2. Noun.  in polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.
  3. Noun.  in polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children.
  4. Noun.  in a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child.

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