Crossword-Solution: MATERNAL 8 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Maternal a. Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother;
motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

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MATERNAL anagram LATERMAN

We have 44 clues for the answer “MATERNAL”

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relating to or derived from one's mother 1 answer
It may precede "instinct" 1 answer
Kind of inheritance 1 answer
Kind of relative 1 answer
Like one set of grandparents 1 answer
Like the heredity of mitochondrial DNA 1 answer
MOTHER (pert. to a) 1 answer
Of a parent. 1 answer
characteristic of a mother 1 answer
of a mother 1 answer
Protective in a way 2 answers
Like some grandparents 2 answers
Like some instincts 2 answers
Parental 4 answers
Kind of instinct 6 answers
instinct 11 answers
nurturing 13 answers
hoarding 20 answers
matriarchal 30 answers
matrilineal 31 answers
motherly 35 answers
desirous 35 answers
transmissible 36 answers
bequeathed 37 answers
Hereditary 38 answers
connatural 38 answers
Genetic 45 answers
Inherited 45 answers
genealogical 47 answers
patrimonial 47 answers
Patriarchal. 47 answers
lineal 48 answers
Inbred 48 answers
tribal 49 answers
familial 50 answers
innate 50 answers
consanguine 54 answers
connate 55 answers
Congenital 55 answers
ancestral 57 answers
Indigenous 57 answers
intrinsic 60 answers
Elemental. 61 answers
care 96 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MATERNAL (5)

Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Only in discerning between the Father and the Mother would the Circular infant find problems for the exercise of his understanding—problems too often likely to be corrupted by maternal impostures with the result of shaking the child’s faith in all logical conclusions.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
And this is a lesson which I suspect you must have learnt out of Homer; for he, speaking of Autolycus, the maternal grandfather of Odysseus, who is a favourite of his, affirms that He was excellent above all men in theft and perjury.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Maternal societies for confining poor women; Magdalen societies for rescuing poor women; strong-minded societies for putting poor women into poor men’s places, and leaving the men to shift for themselves;—he was vice-president, manager, referee to them all.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
John Knightley, that in spite of maternal solicitude for the immediate enjoyment of her little ones, and for their having instantly all the liberty and attendance, all the eating and drinking, and sleeping and playing, which they could possibly wish for, without the smallest delay, the children were never allowed to be long a disturbance to him, either in themselves or in any restless attendance on them.
Emma Jane Austen 1994

Quotes with MATERNAL (3)

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest
Walt Whitman Song of Myself
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Hymn of the Universe
I feel compelled to make another 'nonapology.' Many readers are likely to be concerned about my use of masculine pronouns in relation to God. I think I both understand and appreciate this concern. It is a matter to which I have given much thought. I have generally been a strong supporter of the women's movement and action that is reasonable to combat sexist language. But first of all, God is not neuter. He is exploding with life and love and even sexuality of a sort. So 'It' …
M. Scott Peck People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 17 times in crossword archives (1964–2022).