An expecting couple with their daughter

A daughter is a female offspring; a girl, woman, or female animal in relation to her parents. The male equivalent is a son. Image File history File linksMetadata Expecting_family. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Expecting_family. ... The hand mirror and comb of the Roman Goddess Venus is often used to represent the female sex. ... For other uses, see Reproduction (disambiguation) Reproduction is the biological process by which new individual organisms are produced. ... // Two Tamil girls in Tiruvannamalai. ... Diverse women. ... A parent is a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian // Mother This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A son is a male offspring; a boy, man, or male animal in relation to either or both of his parents. ...

Analogously the name is used on several areas to show relations between groups or elements.

Female offspring

In patriarchal societies, daughters often enjoy different or lesser familial rights than sons. A family may prefer to have sons rather than daughters, with the daughters subjected to female infanticide. In some societies it is the custom for a daughter to be 'sold' to her husband, who must pay a bride price. The reverse of this custom, where the parents pay the husband a sum of money to compensate for the financial burden of the woman, is found in societies where women do not labour outside the home, and is referred to as dowry. Patriarchy (from Greek: pater (genitive form patris, showing the root patr-), meaning father and arché meaning rule) is the anthropological term used to define the sociological condition where male members of a society tend to predominate in positions of power; with the more powerful the position, the more likely it... Female infanticide, the prevalent form of sex-selective infanticide is the systematic killing of girls at or soon after birth. ... Bride price also known as bride wealth or a dower is an amount of money or property paid to the parents of a woman for the right to marry their daughter. ... A dowry (also known as trousseau) is a gift of money or valuables given by the brides family to the grooms at the time of their marriage. ...

In many cases, daughters in a family where there is a son do not inherit. In British heraldry, women with brothers could not inherit their father's coat of arms; though they could display it and impale it with their husband's, they could not pass it to their children. If there were no surviving brothers, all the daughters in the family inherited the coat of arms, becoming heraldic heiresses in their own right. Their marital achievement would then feature the wife's arms on an inescutcheon of pretense, and they could transmit their arms to their children as a quarter. Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, and obligations upon the death of an individual. ... Heraldry in its most general sense encompasses all matters relating to the duties and responsibilities of officers of arms. ...

Animals

A daughter is the female offspring of the animal.

Plants

A daughter plant is an offspring grown out of a part of the plant, for example out of a leaf.

Genderless species

The term daughter is also sometimes used to refer to offspring in the case of genderless species or cell division, where the parent is referred to as mother. It can also refer to something personified in relation to its source, as in Truth is the daughter of Time. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Faces of mother and child; detail of sculpture at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Female mallard duck and ducklings A mother is the biological or social female parent of a child. ...

General relationship

The term can also refer to the subordinate in any relationship where the superior entity is referred to as mother, for example, a daughter ship. It may depend on time relations or on structure relations.