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maternalistic

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adj.1.showing maternal instincts; behaving as a mother should; motherly.
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Adj.1.maternalistic - showing maternal instinctsmaternalistic - showing maternal instincts          
maternal - characteristic of a mother; "warm maternal affection for her guest"- Dorothy Sayers
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