adj. Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
adj. Respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents.
adj. Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents.
adj. Bearing the relation of a child.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to or due from a child in relation to the parents.
Bearing the relation of a child.
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adj. designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation
adj. relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring
Word Usage
"When followed by l the history of f was like that of c and g: the result for all three was a palatalized l which soon began to be represented by ll (approximate to li in English "filial": flamma, Span. llama, clamare, Span. llamar, etc.)."