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nounan informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiouslytype of:
Definition that contains pater
- 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
- bilateral descent line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family
- 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
- paternally in a paternal manner
- androgeny male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization
- agnation line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family
- paternity suit a lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined)