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matrilinear - based on or tracing descent through the female line; "matrilineal inheritance"

lineal, direct - in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"

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Their family system is matrilinear and two centuries of inbreeding produced a generation of webbed hands, ingrowing eyelashes, lobeless ears and other deformities.

Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman: A Subversive Cartesian Thought Experiment

Men are no more risk taking than women in small-scale farming communities in Chile, or among the matrilinear Khasi in India, or among the patriarchal Maasai in Tanzania.

Neither Fish, Nor Peacocks, Nor Elephant Seals

A imposicao da descendencia matrilinear pelo sistema escravista (para garantir a permanencia da condicao escrava do filho, ainda que o pai fosse um homem livre) estimulou a mulher negra e mulata a construcao de sua autonomia ainda nas circunstancias da escravidao.

Gender, Sex and Race and the Formation of Females Subjectivities in Cuba, XIX Century/Genero, sexo e raca e a formacao de subjetividades femininas em Cuba, seculo XIX

So do you reconfigure the space of each of the four venues into a more matrilinear, humanist setting?

Wangechi Mutu's fantastic journey

In West Afrika, when we talk about matrilinear, that means the lineage comes down through the female part.

On my journey now: the narrative and works of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the knowledge revolutionary

Saisiat, Bunun, Tsou; (C) matrilinear societies with age ranks, e.g.

Politics and headhunting among the Formosan Sejiq: ethnohistorical perspectives

(42) Haggard's powerful female rulers may derive in part from his anthropological interest in matrilinear succession.

Andrew Lang, comparative anthropology and the classics in the African romances of Rider Haggard

This interpretation poses no historical problem for, as noted by Worsley (2006), kinship relationships in polygamous Central Javanese royal households were complex and several members of one royal family could have claimed right to succession on the basis of blood relations acquired along matrilinear lines.

On birds, ascetics, and kings in Central Java: Ramayana Kakawin, 24.95-126 and 25