maternal
muh tur nuhl
- a characteristic of a mother
warm maternal affection for her guest"- Dorothy Sayers - a relating to or derived from one's mother
maternal genes - a relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
- s related on the mother's side
my maternal grandmother
- I think that my mother was not a maternal woman.
- For here is the truly ghastly reality of maternal mortality: in 20 years--two decades that have seen spectacular medical breakthroughs--the ratio of maternal deaths to babies born .
- Zefa Corbis Led by Katherine Stothard at Newcastle University in Great Britain, the researchers reviewed 18 earlier studies of maternal weight and congenital abnormalities .