母体

母體
mǔtǐ
noun #15,594

Meanings

  1. 1 mother's body
  2. 2 parent body
  3. 3 matrix
  4. 4 parent population (statistics)

Examples

Tāi'ér zài mǔtǐ nèi fāyù.
The fetus develops inside the mother's body.
Zhè zhǒng huàhéwù shì cóng mǔtǐ jiégòu yǎnshēng chūlái de.
This compound is derived from the parent structure.

Tips

usage
Has different meanings in different fields: in biology/medicine = mother's body (母体健康 = maternal health); in chemistry = parent compound; in statistics = population (母体 vs 样本 = population vs sample).

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