Noun
paternal grandmother (plural paternal grandmothers)
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paternal, grandmother. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Coordinate terms: paternal grandfather, maternal grandfather, maternal grandmother
The Jewish Nigger, Lassalle... It is now quite plain to me - as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify - that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses' flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a nigger). Karl Marx
People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired? Kyung-sook Shin