matriline

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Latin: mater: mother + linea: line.

[edit] Noun

matriline (plural matrilines)

  1. a line of descent from an ancestress to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are mothers.

[edit] See also

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