Definitions | maternal |
| adjective
- Pertaining to a mother, her genes, her relatives, or her side of a family.
- maternal grandfather
- Motherly.
- Received or inherited from someone's mother.
- Of or pertaining to pregnancy.
- maternal death
- Committed by a mother.
- maternal filicide
Etymology: Derived from Vulgar Latin maternalis, from Classical Latin maternus, from mater "mother"
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