Definition of "matrilineage" []

• Line of descent as traced through women on the maternal side of a family. (noun)

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• "A similar kind of onomastic matrilineage is established through a practice Junod, around the turn of the century, described as the most frequent method of infant-naming among the Tsonga, and through which many of the eldest interviewees had received their birth name: consulting the divining bones to obtain the name of an ancestor so as to kupfuxa (wake up) that ancestor's spirit in the person of the child."
• "Kwere speakers also note tombo to name the matrilineage of the * - kolo matriclan."
• "They practiced uxorilocal marriage, and they managed inheritance along the line of a woman's matrilineage."