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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
whose/huːz/

▶interrogative possessive determiner & pronoun belonging to or associated with which person. ▶relative possessive determiner of whom or which.

– origin OE hwæs, genitive of hwā ‘who’ and hwæt ‘what’.

'whose' also found in these Oxford entries:

Aaron's rod - Achilles heel - actor - adultescent - agonist - airman - allophone - altricial - amniote - angiotensin - antagonist - argyle - Aries - ascomycete - Asian - assisted place - assurance - atlas - attack - azo dye - baker - banana republic - banshee - banyan - basidiomycete - be - beautician - bee fly - betel - bevel wheel - biochip - bitterling - bloatware - blood group - bodhisattva - bookmaker - botfly - Bramley - bricklayer - buck - butcher - cabbage - cabbage white - candleberry - cannabinol - carabineer - carbon steel - cardigan - careerist - carpet beetle

Forum discussions with the word(s) "whose" in the title:

... whose business (it) is to...
...whose long "service" has equipped them ...
<to meet Reza>/<painted by a man> whose eyesight was almost completely gone
<whose name was> or <the name of which was>
"for whose a ruby spark"
"Of whom" instead of "Whose"
"Whose colours bleed the red rose white"
"whose" for both people and nouns that do not refer to people
"Whose" used with inanimate objects
a (human) product whose sell-by date has passed
A "Whose" Question
A chef is a person whose duty （it） is to cook.
A child whose parents come from different countries: word?
a friend whose father teaches at a high school
A guy, whose knowledge vs a song, which clip
A language, whose knowledge?
a man whose 'courage none can stem'
a person whose parents come from different countries/races
A person whose parents have different nationalities.
a tree whose name he doesn't know
an overambitious experiment "whose" unintended effects are...
Any persons / of persons whose .. is/are fortunate
Any persons whose native language is English (is/are) fortunate.
because of 'their' qualifications [whose?]
Bell Telephone Laboratories whose task was to
business entities whose debt(s)
But for those whose lives constituted the case’s facts,
by a man whose imagination had certainly been fed on
Can you use "whose" with things?
certain officers whose duty it was to see that
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