birthparent

birthparent
birthparent [bʉrth′per΄ənt]
n.
a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption: also birth parent

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birth parent also birth·par·ent (bûrthʹpâr'ənt, -păr'-) n.
One's biological parent.

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