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Definition of Matrilineally
1. Adverb. By descent through the female line.
Definition of Matrilineally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matrilineally
Literary usage of Matrilineally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"lineage or kindred mate, fellow member of one's matrilineage or of one's personal
consanguineal kindred (whether matrilineally related or otherwise). aan ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... as also the comparative study of the distribution of crests among the
matrilineally organized peoples of this region. The general discussion of totemism ..."
3. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"... where some kinds of property are transmitted matrilineally, others patrilineally ;
there are patronymic tribes like the Warramunga among whom the legacy ..."
4. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1918)
"... in short, that " the matrilineally organized tribes represented the primitive,
at least the earlier, condition from which others had emerged by changing ..."
5. Tracking Gender Equity Under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in by Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Ratna M. Sudarshan (2003)
"... family) houses were inherited matrilineally but sons and daughters inherited
other property. In Fuller's (1976) study village in central Travancore, ..."
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