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maternalistic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective maternalistic has 1 sense
- maternalistic(s = adj.all) Array - showing maternal instincts; Array Derived forms noun maternalism2, noun maternalism1
CIDE DICTIONARY
maternalistic, adj.
showing maternal instincts; behaving as a mother should; motherly. [WordNet 1.5]
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