surrogate mother

• ⇰ a person or who serves in place of the biological mother for child, as for caring or nurturing.
• ⇰ a female animal that raises and nurses the offspring of another animal.
• ⇰ a woman who becomes pregnant by an artificial procedure (one other than copulation), and bears a child to be raised by another person. The person on whose behalf the child is gestated and born is usually one of the biological parents. The embryo carried