Parental

Adjective

 * of, or related to a parent
 * 1)  of the generation of organisms that produce a hybrid

Related terms

 * parental control
 * parental duty
 * parental home
 * parental leave

Noun

 * 1) A person fulfilling a parental role.
 * Nowadays there are all kinds of potential parentals besides parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, step-parents, in-laws, older siblings and cousins, and those in civil unions.

Thesaurus
adoring, affectionate, ancestorial, ancestral, conjugal, covering, custodial, defensive, demonstrative, devoted, faithful, fatherlike, fatherly, filial, fond, fostering, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandparental, guardian, guarding, husbandly, immunizing, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, mother, motherlike, motherly, parent, paternal, patriarchal, preventive, prophylactic, protecting, protective, romantic, safeguarding, screening, sentimental, sheltering, shielding, soft, tender, tutelary, uxorious, vigilant, watchful, wifely

Etymology
From parentalis:, from parens:

Adjective

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vanhempien


 * German: elterlich
 * Hungarian:

Anagrams

 * paternal, prenatal

Adjective

 * 1) parental

Anagrams

 * plantera