Synonym: fatherly. Antonym: maternal. Similar words: external, internal, international, pattern, alternative, journal, journalist, journalism. Meaning: [pə'tɜrnl /-'tɜːnl] adj. 1. belonging to or inherited from one's father 2. characteristic of a father 3. relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent 4. related on the father's side.
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(31) Although he had no children of his own, he took a kind of paternal interest in Katie's progress at school.
(32) His paternal grandfather farmed Craigie Mains, Symington and had a considerable reputation as a breeder of Ayrshire cattle.
(33) Tom's voice groped unsuccessfully for the paternal note.
(34) The paternal longing ran afoul of her own desire.
(35) He had an almost paternal fondness for Pen. Sentencedict.com
(36) Nurse does not have the means that to guarantee that the US ultra wound restoration, has to let two paternal aunts signatures, agreed that ties up his hand cannot move heedlessly .
(37) Russian names include three parts: given name, paternal name and surname.
(38) And likewise a table in the same taste; the whole being of the Elizabethan age, or perhaps earlier, and heirlooms, transferred hither from the Governor's paternal home.
(39) Her paternal family history was not known. Medications on admission included metoprolol, meclizine, and acetylsalicylic acid.
(40) Johnny-B's paternal grandfather had staked out a stout chunk of the Olympic Peninsula and the timberlands around Lake Chelan to become one of the earliest lumber barons of the Pacific Northwest.
(41) 'sit down, Daisy, " Tom's voice groped unsuccessfully for the paternal note. " What's been going on?
(42) My paternal grandfather was The Atreides, descendant of the House of Atreus and tracing his ancestry directly back to the Greek original.
(43) Plastid of most angiosperms is uniparental maternal inheritance, yet a majority of gymnosperm is uniparental paternal inheritance.
(44) My paternal adviser of the past few months , Fried - rich Luschen , had arrived at the Chancellery.
(45) On the other hand, the former inherited from the latter heavy consciousness of male chauvinism, especially the element of paternal culture of pudicity and gentleness.
(46) Derivation of a formula for determination of proportion of paternal trisomy 21 is presented.
(47) The paternal laugh was echoed by Joseph , who thought the joke capital.
(48) The animus corresponds to the paternal Logos just as the anima corresponds to the maternal Eros.
(49) Her father, an influential owner-editor murdered four years ago, was Greek Orthodox, her paternal grandmother a famous Druze poet.
(50) Part I Expression of PEGS in GliomasPEG3 (Paternally Expressed Gene 5) is an imprinted gene of which only the paternal allele is expressed.
(51) Genetic abnormalities are more often associated with faults in paternal DNA than in maternal DNA.
(52) A maternal grandfather had rheumatoid arthritis, and a paternal grandmother had systemic lupus erythematosus.
(53) The reckoning of descent in the female line and the matriarchal law of inheritance were thereby overthrown, and the male line of descent and the paternal law of inheritance were substituted for them.
(54) For the litter size, variance components of maternal gametic effects were about twice than that of paternal gametic effects.
(55) His paternal grandfather fled the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 and settled in Los Angeles, where he opened a hardware store.
(56) Moreover, this archetype reflects the history that the paternal society replaced the matriarchal society.
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