maternal
adjective
of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother.
nonmaternal
-
a word derived from
maternal.
Example Sentences
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The study uncovered several indications that the pregnancy checkbox was responsible for misclassifying nonmaternal and incidental deaths in pregnancy as maternal deaths.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
Three-and-a-half-year-olds, Ames wrote, should probably be with a nonmaternal caregiver quite a bit to break up the power struggles between mother and child.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2021
He concluded that babies who spend more than 20 hours a week in nonmaternal care during the first year of life risk having an "insecure attachment" to their mothers.
From Time Magazine Archive
