Usually means: Residence with wife's family post-marriage.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. matrilocal: Merriam-Webster
  2. matrilocal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. matrilocal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. matrilocal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. matrilocal: Wiktionary
  6. matrilocal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. matrilocal: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. matrilocal: Dictionary.com
  9. Matrilocal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. matrilocal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. matrilocal: Anthropological Terms

Definitions from Wiktionary (matrilocal)

adjective:  (of a married couple) Living with the family of the wife; uxorilocal.
adjective:  (anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the wife's family.

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