1.
item(s) used to begin propagation; sample; seedlings; breeding stock; cuttings; starter; model.
This word covers anything used to get a start on anything: From something used to start a family, to something used to start
a project, garden, etc. Note for the example below: Adopting a child is consider as "pump priming", that is, having a child,
by adoption or naturally, becomes the catalyst for having more children.
The reason now they adopted a child, [the adopted child] was [adopted] by them to be instrumental, for them, as a starter.
The reason they adopted a child was to "get a starter" for having more children.
The uralan cassava from Tawi-Tawi are good cutting starters.
2.
start; chance; opportunity.
For this sense, we have only found piguhan used with a negative, as the examples below illustrate.
Their chances of being able to make a lovely home are nil, because every time they start [building], there are always bad
[things] which hit them.
There is no way for them to be able to build a lovely home, because every time they start on the house, they are just slapped
with bad contingencies.
Their start does not bode well, every time she is pregnant, she always miscarries.