antimaternal
adjEtymology From anti- + maternal.
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Having characteristics opposite those associated with maternity
- The eponymous "Unnatural Mother," for one, certainly seems to show an antimaternal rather than a maternal reflex when she rapidly and automatically acts to save her town rather than her own child.2007, Jill Rudd, Val Gough, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer, →ISBN, page 207:
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Immunology, Medicine, Sciences Pertaining to an immune response against the mother
- an antimaternal antibody