Similar words: patrilineal, matrix, matrimony, matriarch, matriarchy, matriarchal, matrimonial, lineage. Meaning: ['mætrɪ'lɪnɪəl] 
adj. based on or tracing descent through the female line.
adj. based on or tracing descent through the female line. 
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1. Some primates live in patrilineal rather than matrilineal descent groups.
2. The Chickasaw too had matrilineal clans.
3. Co-existence of matrilineal and patrilineal family in the community of Mosuo people adjacent to Lugu Lake. It's social formation is in such a historical period changing from matriarchy to patriarchy.
4. The door-god culture originated from matrilineal society. The ancient door-god was the symbol of female genitals .
5. Moreover , the matrilineal system was not a matriarchal system.
6. The Anasazi family was matrilineal ; that is, descent was traced through the female.
7. The females advantageous position in the matrilineal society depended on their contribution to bearing children.
8. It covers data on both matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo society, and ethnographic information on patrilineal Mosuo families.
9. Objective To search responsible nuclear genes for matrilineal non - syndromic deafness.
10. The Hani people went through matrilineal clanship, patrilineal clanship, feudal laird system, and socialist society.
11. This fieldwork brings a new example for the studies of matrilineal system.
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12. Early in human society, our society is divided into matrilineal and patrilineal clan clan.
13. Helgason's graduate student, Sigridur Sunna Ebenesersdottir, found that she could trace the matrilineal sequence to a date far earlier than when the first Asians began arriving in Iceland.
14. The theory of matriarchal authority can not be derived from the matrilineal system.
15. Most scholars in past research programs believed that women enjoyed the dominant position, or so-called "matriarchy", in the matrilineal society.
16. Conclusion 45 positive loci obtained from this family may be as the candidate matrilineal non - syndromic deafness.
17. Genitalia adoration of bamboo consists of vulvae adoration and phallism, the former is the outcome of matrilineal society, while the latter is the outcome of patrilineal society.
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