Adoptive mother
Foster mother and adoptive mother are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Foster mother" instead a noun phrase "Adoptive mother".
Foster mother
Foster mother noun - A woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child.
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Adoptive mother and foster mother are semantically related. You can use "Adoptive mother" instead a noun phrase "Foster mother".
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The most well-known story is that they were raised by a she-wolf as infants, but many think that their foster mother may have been a human prostitute, since the word used to describe their adoptive mother in the earliest versions could have meant either "she-wolf" or "prostitute" in context.
Source: Son of a Whore
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