Associations to the word «Matrilineage»

Wiktionary

MATRILINEAGE, noun. Lineage based upon the maternal line

Dictionary definition

MATRILINEAGE, noun. Line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne