[
UK
/pəɹˈɛntəl/
]
[ US /pɝˈɛntəɫ/ ]
[ US /pɝˈɛntəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced
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relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
parental guidance
How To Use parental In A Sentence
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- That notion identifies heritability with the regression of the offspring phenotype on the parental (or biparental mean in the case of sexual reproduction), where both phenotypes are presented as z-scores (i.e., set to mean = 0 and standard deviation = 1). Miss Winter Solstice
- The writer of the poems marks parental rejection with astounding empathy.
- The methodology is applicable to the investigation of parentage for all progeny developed from parental mating without subsequent generations of inbreeding.
- For the past five years I have been a regular attendant at the Algico Primary Schools Sports and the lack of parental support has always struck me.
- In our Columbia County Study, we relied on parent and child reports of parental punishment, rejection, nurturance, and monitoring.
- Young people often chafe under the yoke of parental control.
- Children can join the register with parental consent and the oldest organ donor in the UK was aged 82.
- But that is no excuse for treating the scientist like a child who does not know what is good for him and must be protected by the parental arm of PC Plod.
- In addition, the teenage psychology problem that because of parental feeling crisis, family disaccord causes, in recent years increasingly apparent.