matrilineal
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matrilineal (not comparable)
- (anthropology) Tracing descent only through female ancestors.
- Kerala traditionally has matrilineal inheritance.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
- 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.
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Tracing descent only through female ancestors
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Borrowed from English matrilineal.
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matrilineal (Jawi spelling ماتريلينيال)
- (anthropology) matrilineal
- Antonym: patrilineal
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- "matrilineal" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
- “matrilineal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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matrilineal m or f (masculine and feminine plural matrilineales)
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- “matrilineal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014