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matrilineage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun matrilineage has 1 sense
- matrilineage(n = noun.linkdef) cognation, enation - line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family; Array is a kind of unilateral descent
CIDE DICTIONARY
matrilineage, n.
The line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family; the mother's line of descent. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
matrilineage
affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, enation, fatherhood, filiation, fraternity, kindred, kinship, maternity, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, ties of blood
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