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adjectiverelating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
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"a paternal aunt"adjectiverelated on the father's side
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adjectivecharacteristic of a father
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"spent his childhood on the paternal farm" "paternal traits"belonging to or inherited from one's father
Definition that contains paternal
- unilateral tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only
- patronymic a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor)
- synapsis the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis
- patrilineage line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family
- androgenesis male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization
- patronym a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor)
- androgeny male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization
- bilateral descent line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family
- agnation line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family
- paternally in a paternal manner