matrilineal

Speech parts

1. matrilineal - Adjective

2. matrilineal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

based on or tracing descent through the female line

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

matrilinear allied genealogical direct foster genetic tribal affiliated maternal innate akin collateral patriarchal lineal germane
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Antonyms

different indirect collateral irrelevant unrelated patrilineal
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Related terms

matrilateral

Phrases with the word

matrilineal primogeniture

Examples

Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey. Roseanne Barr

matrilineal inheritance Source: Internet

Among the Five Civilized Tribes, mixed-race slaveholders were generally part of an elite hierarchy, often based on their mothers' clan status, as the societies had matrilineal systems. Source: Internet

As the people had a matrilineal system of property and hereditary leadership, their children were born into the mother's clan and gained their status from her people. Source: Internet

At first, Boas—like Morgan before him—suggested that the Kwakiutl had been matrilineal like their neighbors to the north, but that they were beginning to evolve patrilineal groups. Source: Internet

Gender and kinship system The Crow had a matrilineal system. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

matrilin matriline matrilineage matrilineal kin matrilineal primogeniture matrilineal sib