maternally

Adverb

Meaning

In a motherly manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

motherly closely carefully maternal gently affectionately amicably cheerfully ardently tenderly compassionately amiably paternally charitably affably
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Antonyms

hard ill badly hardly firmly brutally
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Examples

On our Pompilia, faultless to a fault, Law bends a brow maternally severe, Implies the worth of perfect chastity, By fancying the flaw she cannot find. Robert Browning

she loved her students almost maternally Source: Internet

DIRAS3 (NOEY2 or ARH1) DIRAS3 is a paternally expressed and maternally imprinted gene located on chromosome 1 in humans. Source: Internet

Kjetil Tronvoll, Ethiopia, a new start?, (Minority Rights Group: 2000) Haile Selassie's mother was paternally of Oromo descent and maternally of Gurage heritage, while his father was paternally Oromo and maternally Amhara. Source: Internet

Of the 46 chromosomes in a normal diploid human cell, half are maternally derived (from the mother's egg ) and half are paternally derived (from the father's sperm ). Source: Internet

Parthenogenetic/gynogenetic embryos have twice the normal expression level of maternally derived genes, and lack expression of paternally expressed genes, while the reverse is true for androgenetic embryos. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

maternalization maternalize maternall maternalness maternity maternity benefit