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Definitions
based on or tracing descent through the female line
Word origin
From matri- + lineal. Coined by British government anthropologist Northcote Whitridge Thomas in 1904 along with patrilineal.
Used in a sentence
“Kerala traditionally has matrilineal inheritance.”
“Enkidu expresses the values of nature, matrilineal conservatism, and the populism of the assembly, the assembly of village elders from the days before military dictatorship.”
“This female hyena also gets erections and is larger, more aggressive than the male hyenas and lives in matrilineal clans of up to 80 individuals governed by an alpha female matriarch.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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