materteral

adj

1. Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an aunt.

   “It may be that stipulations about parts and wholes are, in some way that undermines my materteral analogies, unlike stipulations about aunts and legacies.”

   “Only some insistent pleading (materteral rather than avuncular) had changed their mind.”

   “It pleased her to see Aunt Maude waiting tables. Smiling to herself, Alice reflected that Maude was materteral ... like a kindly aunt.”

   “A materteral lady told me that people come here from the city in search of peace.”