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What does filial mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word filial? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (not comparable) Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
  2. (comparable) Respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents.
  3. (genetics) Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
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For example, it teaches filial respect, marital fidelity, nonviolence, and cooperation.
These filial organs are enclosed by a maternal seed coat, derived from one or both ovular integuments.
In the filial generation, haplosis occurs as a result of nuclear dissociation to produce uninucleate spores infectious to larval mosquitoes.
In an act of filial generosity, he ordered April to be renamed for his mother.
Political urgency demands, however, that none of this authority, whether it be filial or affiliative, stand unquestioned.
In addition, nitrogen metabolism increases the molar ratio of amino nitrogen released to filial tissues.

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