parentless
adjEtymology From parent + -less.
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Having no (living) parent.
- Firstly, then, who were these parentless children who seem to have been present in a sizeable proportion of households...1973, Michael Gordon, The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective:
- No, if you wanted to free yourself of feelings you didn't want to be an Engineer. Growing up parentless on Ditch Street, though; that would really do the trick.2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 158:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Having no parent in a data structure.
- The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.2012, Michael Lawrence, John Verzani, Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R, page 19:
- Two consequences of parentless elements complicate the rules.2004, Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference:
- Derived terms
- parentlessness
- Related terms
- half orphan, orphan
- Coordinate terms
- fatherless, motherless