parental

parental
    adj 1: designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid
           offspring are produced [ant: {filial}]
    2: relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent;
       "parental guidance" [syn: {parental}, {maternal}, {paternal}]
       [ant: {filial}]
    

Parental \Pa*ren"tal\, a. [L. parentalis.]
   1. Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental
      authority; parental obligations; parental affection.
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   2. Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender;
      affectionate; devoted; as, parental care.
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            The careful course and parental provision of nature.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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53 Moby Thesaurus words for "parental":
      adoring, affectionate, ancestorial, ancestral, conjugal, covering,
      custodial, defensive, demonstrative, devoted, faithful, fatherlike,
      fatherly, filial, fond, fostering, grandfatherly, grandmotherly,
      grandparental, guardian, guarding, husbandly, immunizing,
      languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal,
      melting, mother, motherlike, motherly, parent, paternal,
      patriarchal, preventive, prophylactic, protecting, protective,
      romantic, safeguarding, screening, sentimental, sheltering,
      shielding, soft, tender, tutelary, uxorious, vigilant, watchful,
      wifely