(anthropology) Tracing descent only through female ancestors.

(anthropology) The condition of being matrilineal / (anthropology) matrilineage

In matrilineal fashion.

The matrilineal system.

plural of matriline

A line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are mothers.

plural of matrilin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteoglycan-associated proteins that are major components of extracellular matrix of various tissues