daughter

1. (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.

2. (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.Examples: "We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is a daughter of XP, and one in which X is not a daughter of XP, but a daughter of one of the constituents of XP (in an adjunct configuration)."; "Following the conventional pattern, the argument daughter of a node is assigned the index n0 and placed on the left side, and the functor daughter, the index n1, is placed on the right side."

3. (by extension) A female character of a creator.broadly

4. (informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.derogatoryinformalsometimesuncommon