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/mətˈɜːnəli/
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ADVERB
-
in a maternal manner; as a mother
she loved her students almost maternally
How To Use maternally In A Sentence
- The scientists cannot say if the "hominin" was male or female, but adopted the name tag "X-woman" because the discovery was based on maternally inherited DNA. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- It has long been known that most of the factors that are required during early embryogenesis are deposited into the egg cytoplasm during oogenesis and are maternally provided.
- `And I'm sure that Joan Jaspert will do everything possible to help, if only to demonstrate to me how maternally remiss I am. THE WHITE DOVE
- “I go get a mouchoir,” she said, maternally, heading for the tissue box in the bedroom and returning with a handful. Salve
- The all-female condition has been consistently transmitted maternally to offspring for 22 generations.
- In this study, we investigated differences in maternally deposited yolk testosterone and DHT in relation to diet quality.
- Mitochondrial genomes, being maternally inherited and es-sentially clonal, are necessarily related in a nested hierarchic fashion A New Book
- she loved her students almost maternally
- Then their nuclear membranes disintegrate and the paternally and maternally contributed chromosomes pair up, an event called syngamy. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- `And I'm sure that Joan Jaspert will do everything possible to help, if only to demonstrate to me how maternally remiss I am. THE WHITE DOVE