PATERNAL

paternal

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; as, "paternal grandfather" (one's father's father).
  2. Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
  3. Received or inherited from one's father.
  4. Acting as a father; as in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).


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