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Avuncular: 1. Literally, relating to an uncle. 2. Figuratively, suggestive of an uncle, as in geniality. 3 In medical genetics, pertaining to an aunt or uncle. An avuncular relationship is the genetic relationship between aunts and uncles and their nieces and nephews. From the Latin avunculus, meaning maternal uncle. The feminine equivalent of avuncular is materteral (like an aunt).
Definition of AVUNCULAR. 1: of or relating to an uncle . 2: suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality < avuncular indulgence> — avun·cu·lar·i ...
adjective of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an uncle : avuncular affection. Origin: 1825–35; < Latin avuncul ( us ) a mother's brother, equivalent to av ( us ...
adj. Of or having to do with an uncle. Regarded as characteristic of an uncle, especially in benevolence or tolerance. [From Latin avunculus , maternal uncle.]
In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle. 1997, David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life : Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point ...
a·vun·cu·lar (-v ng ky-l r) adj. 1. Of or having to do with an uncle. 2. Regarded as characteristic of an uncle, especially in benevolence or tolerance.