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patrilineal

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1. patrilineal - Adjective

2. patrilineal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

based on or tracing descent through the male line

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a patrilineal society Source: Internet

Any child which may result is the husband's child and his descendant in the patrilineal order of Maasai society. Source: Internet

A sizeable component of Scandinavian patrilineal ancestry has been reported in Orkney (55%) and Shetland (68%). Source: Internet

Father descendant names can be chained, meaning that an individual can have the name of their father, followed by their paternal grandfather, followed by the father of that grandfather, to indicate a patrilineal lineage. 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

He consequently would have been considered Oromo in a patrilineal society, and would have been viewed as Gurage in a matrilineal one. Source: Internet

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