| 单词 | matrilineal |
| 释义 | matrilineal (once / 200328 pages) adj Matrilineal refers to familial relationships that can be traced through a female. To follow the matrilineal line in your family, start with your mom. In Latin, matri- refers to the mother, just as patri- refers to the father. Lineal is a word that refers to someone's lineage, or the line of people that came before that person; so the adjective matrilineal describes anything related to kinship through a female line. If the children in your culture take their mother's last name, and not their father's, this is a matrilineal tradition. WORD FAMILYmatrilineal: matrilineally USAGE EXAMPLESThey exemplify what it means to be an authentically empowered woman in the matrilineal way of being. Time(Nov 29, 2016) The geneticists are throwing a monkey wrench into the rabbi's notions of matrilineal descent. New York Times(Sep 25, 2016) Of course, what feels like a matrilineal curse is not really ours. The Guardian(May 28, 2016) adj based on or tracing descent through the female line matrilineal inheritance Syn matrilinear direct, lineal in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。