parental
/pəˈrɛnt(ə)l/adjective
1Relating to a person’s parent or parents: parental responsibility parental leave...
- All three stories focus on women with serious parental issues.
- He has an overweight daughter, to whom he pays no real parental attention.
- His parents appear to act out of love, out of the parental instinct to protect their child.
1.1Relating to an animal or plant from which new ones are derived: parental roots in adult plants...
- He specializes in spawning the parental stocks.
- When tested in experimentally infected pigs, this generated virus showed characteristics similar to its parental wild type.
- Grown from scions of five parental families grafted onto a common rootstock, these new cacao trees yield more pods and beans than their parents.
1.2Denoting an organization or company which owns or controls a number of subsidiaries: the decision to sever ties with the parental organization...
- The president now proposes to convert the current program into the parental version of the defined-contribution plan.
- Goal congruity between parental firms has a positive influence on personal attachment, while cultural distance between them exerts a negative effect.
- The brand does not seem to be pushing its parental pedigree.
Derivatives
parentally
- The social awareness film focuses responsibly on the psychological affects on children of the parentally incarcerated.
- Fines would be levied for parentally condoned truancy, to prevent truancy worsening or to combat persistent late arrival.
- Parentally incubated eggs were not infected, suggesting that incubation limits infection.