paternal

  1. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; ''as'', "paternal grandfather" (one's father's father).
  2. Adjective.  Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
  3. Adjective.  Received or inherited from one's father.
  4. Adjective.  Acting as a father; ''as'' in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).

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