adjective. Relating to, based on, or tracing ancestral descent through the maternal line.

adjective. tracing descent through the female line.

adjective. Tracing descent only through female lines.

adjective. based on or tracing descent through the female line

"Such an emphasis, or reasoning, for the * mwali life position would make far more obvious sociocultural sense in matrilineal and matrifocal societies than imagining that marriage and male sexual pleasure were most important."

patrilineal  

direct  lineal  

lineal  patrilineal  

'o  achaemenian  afrikan  allograft  asmy