PARENTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parental mean? 

• PARENTAL (adjective)
  The adjective PARENTAL has 2 senses:

1. designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced

2. relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent

  Familiarity information: PARENTAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARENTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Antonym:

filial (designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation)

Pertainym:

parent (a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian)

Derivation:

parent (a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent

Synonyms:

maternal; parental; paternal

Context example:

parental guidance

Antonym:

filial (relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring)

Derivation:

parent (a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian)

 Context examples 

New research from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Irvine backs up that parental insight.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

HL-60/MX2 is approximately 35 fold less sensitive to mitoxantrone than the HL-60 parental cells.

(HL-60/MX2, NCI Thesaurus)

It is not known why parental obesity might increase children’s risk for developmental delay.

(Parental obesity linked to delays in child development, National Institutes of Health)

This relationship remained after accounting for factors including age, sex, race, parental education, household income and birth-weight.

(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)

Any variance from the expected 1:1 ratio for the expression of the two inherited parental alleles for the same gene.

(Allelic Imbalance, NCI Thesaurus)

Depudecin is a fungal metabolite that reverts the rounded phenotype of NIH 3T3 fibroblasts transformed with v-ras and v-src oncogenes to the flattened phenotype of the non-transformed parental cells.

(Depudecin, NCI Thesaurus)

The sodium salt form of fosphenytoin, a prodrug that is hydrolyzed to the anticonvulsant phenytoin upon parental administration.

(Fosphenytoin Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

At the DNA replication fork, a DNA helicase (DnaB or MCM complex) precedes the DNA synthetic machinery and unwinds the duplex parental DNA in cooperation with the SSB or RPA.

(DNA Replication Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Higher levels of parental education were associated with lower odds of inclusion in the second group.

(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)

The parental CHO cell line initiated from a biopsy of an ovary of an adult Chinese hamster.

(CHO Cells, NCI Thesaurus)