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parent (parent)

The general relationship of parenthood. (parent child parent) means that parent is a biological parent of child.

Ontology

SUMO / OBJECTS

Class(es)

class
is instance of
  inheritable relation  
is instance of
  binary predicate  
is instance of
asymmetric relation
is instance of
intransitive relation
is instance of
is instance of
  parent  

Superrelation(s)

family relation
is subrelation of
  parent  

Subrelation(s)

mother  father 

Coordinate term(s)

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Type restrictions

parent(organism, organism)

Related WordNet synsets

folks
your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day"
folks is kind of (all)...   folks is kind of...  
genitor
a natural father or mother
genitor is kind of (all)...   genitor is kind of...   kinds of genitor...   kinds of genitor (all)...  
parentage, birth
the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
parentage is kind of (all)...   parentage is kind of...  
parenthood
the state of being a parent
parenthood is kind of (all)...   parenthood is kind of...  
parental
(genetics) designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced
parental is opposite to...   parental pertains to noun...  
parentally
in a parental manner
parentally pertains to noun...  
See more related synsets on a separate page.

Axioms (6)

If rep is an instance of replication and rep is an agent of parent and child is a result of rep, then parent is a parent of child. 
(=>
      (and
            (instance ?REP Replication)
            (agent ?REP ?PARENT)
            (result ?REP ?CHILD))
      (parent ?CHILD ?PARENT))
If rep is an instance of asexual reproduction and organism is a result of rep, then there don't exist parent1,parent2 so that parent1 is a parent of organism and parent2 is a parent of organism and parent1 is not equal to parent2. 
(=>
      (and
            (instance ?REP AsexualReproduction)
            (result ?REP ?ORGANISM))
      (not
            (exists
                  (?PARENT1 ?PARENT2)
                  (and
                        (parent ?ORGANISM ?PARENT1)
                        (parent ?ORGANISM ?PARENT2)
                        (not
                              (equal ?PARENT1 ?PARENT2))))))
If parent is a parent of child, then "the beginning of "the time of existence of parent"" happen?{s} before "the beginning of "the time of existence of child"". 
(=>
      (parent ?CHILD ?PARENT)
      (before
            (BeginFn
                  (WhenFn ?PARENT))
            (BeginFn
                  (WhenFn ?CHILD))))
If parent is a parent of child and class is a subclass of organism and parent is an instance of class, then child is an instance of class. 
(=>
      (and
            (parent ?CHILD ?PARENT)
            (subclass ?CLASS Organism)
            (instance ?PARENT ?CLASS))
      (instance ?CHILD ?CLASS))
If parent is a parent of child, then parent is a mother of child or parent is a father of child. 
(=>
      (parent ?CHILD ?PARENT)
      (or
            (mother ?CHILD ?PARENT)
            (father ?CHILD ?PARENT)))
If organism is an instance of organism, then there exists parent so that parent is a parent of organism. 
(=>
      (instance ?ORGANISM Organism)
      (exists
            (?PARENT)
            (parent ?ORGANISM ?PARENT)))