That bird was maternally motivated to protect her young from the onslaught of the hawk. From LearnThat.org.
She loved her students almost maternally. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : maternal instincts. ,his maternal aunt. ,maternal genes. From Dictionary.com.
My dear wife was maternally descended from the Karnsteins. From Wordnik.com. [Carmilla] Reference
The answer: For a maternally controlled cyborg, very well. From Wordnik.com. [While You Were Peeling Yourself Off Your Sheets Like a Hungover Human Fruit Roll-Up… | Best Week Ever] Reference
T-urf13 is a mitochondrial gene, it is inherited maternally. From Wordnik.com. [Reality 1, Behe 0 - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"How did your first day go, dear?" the receptionist asked maternally. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
It was the growing warmth of the air, passing maternally across his body. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like These...]
A woman in white dusted and swept, stopping only to smile at us maternally. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
You maternally concerned yourself with their needs and with their successes. From Wordnik.com. [Mona Ackerman: Dr. Mona Knows The Signs Of A Woman's Mid-Life Crisis] Reference
KOBILINSKY: Well, it matches to somebody who was maternally related to Cindy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2008] Reference
The kindly, fretful little agony aunt in my mind strokes my hair down maternally. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Your good letter of the 18th, so maternally tender, has made me reflect a great deal. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
The sponge embraces the slender mollusc so maternally that rude yawning is forbidden. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Why would the asexual lineage have any more influence on a maternally inherited genome?. From Wordnik.com. [Sex pays off - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But mostly they sat across the room and regarded her curiously, shyly, quite maternally. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
She disheveled Jatupon's hair and then maternally combed it back again with her fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
For those of you more maternally minded there is also a piccie of my wonderful twin boys. From Wordnik.com. [Can I have that but in blue please] Reference
My dad is, and it's supposedly passed on maternally but you could probably prove it with DNA. From Wordnik.com. [Speechless] Reference
Mitochondrial DNA is maternally linked, all the sister, sibling, everybody have the same type. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2004] Reference
Giving lip service to the black voters, as maternally understanding, their roles in our society. From Wordnik.com. [Durbin To Ickes: Hit Us With Your Best Shot] Reference
Which brings us to Hannah Poling: She does not have "classic," maternally inherited mitochondrial disease. From Wordnik.com. [David Kirby: "Revolutionary" News From Medicine: 1 in 200 People Carry Mitochondrial Disease Mutation] Reference
One to Remember Hotels and resorts are promoting maternally minded deals in advance of Mother's Day (May 11). From Wordnik.com. [Make Mother's Day] Reference
Nonetheless, Ahmose Nefertari's sampled and her mitochondrial DNA (the type passed maternally only) is recovered. From Wordnik.com. [Hatshepsut Found; Thutmose I Lost] Reference
She smiles maternally and sits Indian-style on a couch beneath a massive photo triptych of her son as a young boy. From Wordnik.com. [Family Affair] Reference
Opal held him close to her breast, almost maternally, with a great longing to soothe and calm his troubled spirit. From Wordnik.com. [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference
She had been all too maternally aware that, behind her insouciance and bright chatter, Katie was hiding something. From Wordnik.com. [A Forbidden Loving]
Madame Desvarennes received this plaintive remonstrance with a calm smile, and answered, maternally, as to a child. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
“I go get a mouchoir,” she said, maternally, heading for the tissue box in the bedroom and returning with a handful. From Wordnik.com. [bloggerers’ social – update] Reference
"Shane, Shane" -- she turned away and patted his arm maternally -- "you are like a little boy playing with wooden money.". From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
To this day, the genes required both maternally and in the zygote are not easily accessible to investigations of function. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes] Reference
There are maternally protecting arms that can bear them thus, and in the sphere of their life and love their souls would rest. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
Even still, young children do not have maternally-derived immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases such as whooping cough. From Wordnik.com. [The importance of infant immunization] Reference
Thus, given a start in that direction, natural selection, steadily favoring the more maternally disposed, produced species with. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Quaint old landladies wonder maternally why he never gets drunk, and generally mistake him for an author until he pays his bill. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
Mitochondrial genomes, being maternally inherited and es-sentially clonal, are necessarily related in a nested hierarchic fashion. From Wordnik.com. [A New Book] Reference
In natural ecosystems, mother trees close together are more likely to be maternally related originated from seed of the same tree. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Briefly, cms is maternally inherited, so that 100% of the progeny of a cross in which the mother is male sterile will also be cms. From Wordnik.com. [On the evolution of Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In addition, in cases where the product is provided maternally, the zygotic phenotype may not represent the complete lack of function. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes] Reference
This time, not emotionally or maternally involved, to smile should come more easily and careful comment was just a matter of being polite. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Rapunzel]
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