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SOP: biological sense 3 + parent. Compare biological brother, biological uncle, biological grandparent, etc.; cf. also adoptive parent. PUC – 14:32, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Also biological child, biological son, and so on. But note (lemming test) that Collins has entries for most of these, e.g. biological parent, and so do Merriam–Webster and several medical dictionaries. --Lambiam 20:47, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- Good example of why I'm opposed to making WT:Lemmings a hard-and-fast rule and to giving an automatic pass to entries that meet the criterion. We can redirect the most common collocations to biological if necessary (or all of them, I don't care). PUC – 21:00, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- I recall hearing "biological parent" used as a put-down by offspring who considered a parent to be distant or uncaring, even if it is the only parent (i.e. the birth parent is also the parenting parent, and there are no adoptive or step-parents involved). bd2412 T 14:07, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- And that’s more the tone or particular stress and possibly context that puts down, with the same denotation, not like fille meaning three different things “depending on whether you sneer in a certain way when you use it.” Fay Freak (talk) 14:33, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- I recall hearing "biological parent" used as a put-down by offspring who considered a parent to be distant or uncaring, even if it is the only parent (i.e. the birth parent is also the parenting parent, and there are no adoptive or step-parents involved). bd2412 T 14:07, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- Good example of why I'm opposed to making WT:Lemmings a hard-and-fast rule and to giving an automatic pass to entries that meet the criterion. We can redirect the most common collocations to biological if necessary (or all of them, I don't care). PUC – 21:00, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Same. PUC – 14:33, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Same. PUC – 14:33, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Delete, we have good coverage without it. Also it’s wrong – did you know that one can have two biological mothers by mitochondrial replacement therapy? Only to illustrate the SOP nature. Fay Freak (talk) 13:58, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Delete all. Inqilābī 21:14, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete all as SoP. — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 04:07, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
Deleted. bd2412 T 19:44, 29 October 2024 (UTC)