Crossword-Solution: MATRILINEAL
We have 33 clues for the answer “MATRILINEAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of descent or kinship, reckoned through the mother or through females alone | 1 answer |
| Inherited via the mother's side | 1 answer |
| kinship with mother | 3 answers |
| based on mother | 3 answers |
| matrilinear | 3 answers |
| matriarchal | 30 answers |
| transmissible | 36 answers |
| bequeathed | 37 answers |
| Hereditary | 38 answers |
| connatural | 38 answers |
| maternal | 44 answers |
| In-born | 44 answers |
| Genetic | 45 answers |
| Inherited | 45 answers |
| Patriarchal. | 47 answers |
| genealogical | 47 answers |
| patrimonial | 47 answers |
| Inbred | 48 answers |
| lineal | 48 answers |
| tribal | 49 answers |
| familial | 50 answers |
| Handed down | 50 answers |
| innate | 50 answers |
| Instinctive | 51 answers |
| consanguine | 54 answers |
| paternal | 54 answers |
| Congenital | 55 answers |
| connate | 55 answers |
| ancestral | 57 answers |
| Indigenous | 57 answers |
| Elemental. | 61 answers |
| inherent | 61 answers |
| Native | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MATRILINEAL (5)
This suggestion does not exclude the possibility of the prevalence of matrilineal (and perhaps originally also of matrilocal and matripotestal) conditions among the earliest inhabitants of Egypt.
When the matrilineal, matrilocal and matripotestal conditions are found together, we have mother-right at its fullest and strongest.
The clan, it is true, whether matrilineal or patrilineal, tends at the totemic level of society to eclipse the family.
Does the mere fact that descent is matrilineal tend to imply on the whole that the mother's kin take a more active interest in her, and are more effective in protecting her from hurt, whether undeserved or deserved? It is no easy problem to settle.
But though it may be taken as a mark of matrilineal institutions, often associated with matria potestas or its analogue the rule of the mother's brother, that the husband should remove and live with the wife, we are by no means entitled to say that the removal of the wife to the husband implies a different state of things.
Quotes with MATRILINEAL (2)
All modern humans are related to what scientists call "Mitochondrial Eve." This refers to our common matrilineal ancestor. She lived approximately 200,000 years ago and depending on how you estimate the length of a generation, we are only 5,000 to 10,000 generations from one another. To put it another way, each of us is a cousin of one another at most 10,000 times removed. And yes, Mitochondrial Eve lived in Africa, so, in a very real way, we are all Africans.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.