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matrilineal
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mat·ri·lin·e·al (mtr-ln-l)
adj.
Relating to, based on, or tracing ancestral descent through the maternal line.


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There are currently no treatments for this family of diseases, which are inherited matrilineally.
[54] The obosomfoo attends to the abosom and provides healing services, and, in this matrilineally inherited but male position, he oversees the "shrine" attendants, including the gender-neutral role of ]--another category of indigenous healers.
My mother's family was descended, matrilineally, from the founders of three villages in the Fantse rural hinterland near Cape Coast.
 
 
 
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