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📖 Определения и значения для слова maternal

📒 having feelings that are typical of a caring mother towards a child

  • maternal love
  • I'm not very maternal.
  • She didn't have any maternal instincts.

📒 connected with being a mother

  • Maternal age affects the baby's survival rate.
  • the effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy

📒 related through the mother’s side of the family

  • my maternal grandfather (= my mother’s father)
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