Definition of Maternal

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Definition of Maternal
	Maternal Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness. Related Definitions: As, Becoming, Love, Maternal, Mother, Motherly, Of, Or, Pertaining, Tenderness, To

Maternal Quotations

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
Noel Coward

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
Nicholas D. Kristof

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
Nicholas D. Kristof

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
Agnetha Faltskog

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
Karrie Webb

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
Harry A. Blackmun

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
S. J. Perelman

Maternal Translations

maternal in French is maternel
maternal in Hungarian is anya-, anyai
maternal in Italian is materno
maternal in Spanish is maternal
maternal in Swedish is moderlig, moders-

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