Adverb
In a motherly manner.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOn 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