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paternal

adjective as in fatherly

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"We can now see the bigger picture of an individual horse's paternal ancestry."

As a wedding present, her sister collected and compiled maternal and paternal family recipes and put them into a book for her.

“We wouldn’t hug it out ’cause of time, and it felt very paternal too,” Dinklage added.

From Salon

A study at the University of Bath used data from 40,000 households across the UK, and found paternal leave uptake has not increased, and the time off being taken are not longer.

From BBC

Son Christopher Kennedy helped run the Merchandise Mart, the downtown Chicago trade center started by his paternal grandfather.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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