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(mathematics, data)parent - The ancestor node in a tree that points to the current node (one of its child nodes).


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sports' are extremely rare under nature, but far from rare under cultivation; and in this case we see that the treatment of the parent has affected a bud or offset, and not the ovules or pollen.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
"He's a born Weller," laughed Jo, as her parent gathered himself up, and her nephew tried to stand on his head, as the only mode of expressing his satisfaction that school was over.
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Venerable parent promptly resorts to anathematization, and turns him out.
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