Matrilineal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to, based on, or tracing ancestral descent through the maternal line.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Tracing descent only through female lines.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. tracing descent through the female line.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. based on or tracing descent through the female line
  • Equivalent
    direct    lineal   
    Antonym
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    lineal    patrilineal   
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