- Look up
filial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Filial may
refer to:
Filial church, a
Roman Catholic church to
which is
annexed the cure of souls, but...
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Filial piety is the
virtue of
exhibiting love and
respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors,
particularly within the
context of Confucian, Chinese...
- Twenty-four
Filial Exemplars, also
translated as The Twenty-four
Paragons of
Filial Piety (Chinese: 二十四孝), is a
classic text of
Confucian filial piety written...
- The
Sutra of
Filial Piety (or
Sutra on the
Profundity of
Filial Love,
Sutra on
Parental Benevolence, Chinese: 佛說大報父母恩重經) is an
apocryphal sutra composed...
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Filial responsibility laws (
filial support laws,
filial piety laws) are laws in the
United States that
impose a duty,
usually upon
adult children, for...
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Filial therapy is a type of
psychotherapy designed to
treat emotional and
behavioral difficulties in children; it was
formulated by
Bernard Guerney in...
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Filial cannibalism occurs when an
adult individual of a
species consumes all or part of the
young of its own
species or
immediate offspring.
Filial cannibalism...
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hypothesized to have a
critical period. The best-known form of
imprinting is
filial imprinting, in
which a
young animal narrows its
social preferences to an...
- the
adaptive value of
filial cannibalism in
teleosts is that it
increases density-dependent egg survivorship. In
other words,
filial cannibalism simply increases...
- F1
hybrid (also
known as
filial 1 hybrid) is the
first filial generation of
offspring of
distinctly different parental types. F1
hybrids are used in genetics...
