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... > social science subjects > sociology > social interaction > human relationships > family studies > motherhood encyc > motherhood studies > matrilineal
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matrilineal  

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  • This means ‘from the line of the mother’ and describes a system in which property, titles or some other asset is inherited through the female rather than, as is more common, the male line. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Matrilineal]

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