Usually means: Pertaining to son or daughter.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word filial:

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  1. filial: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. filial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. filial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. filial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. filial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Filial, filial: Wordnik
  7. filial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. filial: Wiktionary
  9. filial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. filial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. filial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Filial, filial: Dictionary.com
  13. filial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Filial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Filial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. filial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. filial: Rhymezone
  18. Filial, filial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. filial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. filial: Free Dictionary
  21. filial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. filial: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. filial: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. filial: Legal dictionary

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  1. filial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Filial: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Filial: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. filial: Medical dictionary
  5. Filial: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (not comparable) Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
adjective:  (comparable) Respectful of the duties and attitudes of sons or daughters toward their parents.
adjective:  (genetics) Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.

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