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patrilineage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun patrilineage has 1 sense
- patrilineage(n = noun.linkdef) agnation - line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family; Array is a kind of unilateral descent
CIDE DICTIONARY
patrilineage, n.
The line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
patrilineage
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, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, paternity, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, ties of blood
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