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Meanings of maternally in English

In a maternal manner; as a mother.

Usage of maternally in English
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Her eyes were soft and clear, and appealed maternally to his reason.
T. Tembarom
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She kissed him maternally on the forehead, then consulted his eyes again.
Down There
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Method of infant feeding was recorded prospectively by using maternally completed feeding diaries.
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The sponge embraces the slender mollusc so maternally that rude yawning is forbidden.
My Tropic Isle
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Most of these changes were absent or opposite in the maternally supplemented offspring.
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At least seven maternally acting genes are required for posterior development.
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He choked for five minutes, Mrs. Belcovitch thumping him maternally on the back.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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Methods: We ascertained a Chinese Han family segregating maternally inherited nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss.
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In an enzootically infected colony, however, they are protected by maternally derived passive immunity.
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We identify the maternally supplied RhoGEF2 as a key factor in metaphase furrow positioning.
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Wolbachia are maternally-inherited symbionts that are associated with numerous alterations in host reproductive biology.
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She disheveled Jatupon's hair and then maternally combed it back again with her fingers.
Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
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And Durtal having risen to say good-bye, she kissed him affectionately, maternally, and said,-
The Cathedral
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Stable infections by maternally transmitted symbionts are frequently found in field populations, especially in arthropods.
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Oct-4 is a maternally expressed protein that is also present in the pre-implantation mouse embryo.
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Hence, tissue-specific coregulation of maternally expressed genes might be an important feature of this domain.
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Maternally through the time
Maternally across language varieties
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