Usually means: Residence with husband's family post-marriage.
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  1. uxorilocal: Merriam-Webster
  2. uxorilocal: Collins English Dictionary
  3. uxorilocal: Wiktionary
  4. uxorilocal: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. uxorilocal: Dictionary.com
  6. Uxorilocal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  (anthropology) Matrilocal.

Similar:
matrilineal, oikoclitic, Egyptocentric, anthropochoric, palaeoxylological, Levalloisian, ancestoral, ancestrial, paleoxylological, Olmecoid, more...

Opposite:
patrilocal, virilocal

Types:
patrilocal, matrilocal, neolocal, more...

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Similar:
matrilineal, oikoclitic, Egyptocentric, anthropochoric, palaeoxylological, Levalloisian, ancestoral, ancestrial, paleoxylological, Olmecoid, more...

Opposite:
patrilocal, virilocal

Types:
patrilocal, matrilocal, neolocal, more...



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