Usually means: Inheritance traced through male lineage.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word patrilineal:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. patrilineal: Merriam-Webster
  2. patrilineal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. patrilineal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. patrilineal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. patrilineal: Vocabulary.com
  6. patrilineal: Wordnik
  7. patrilineal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. patrilineal: Wiktionary
  9. patrilineal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. patrilineal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. patrilineal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. patrilineal: Dictionary.com
  13. Patrilineal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. patrilineal: Rhymezone
  15. patrilineal: FreeDictionary.org
  16. patrilineal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. patrilineal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. patrilineal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. patrilineal: Medical dictionary

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

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adjective:  (anthropology) Pertaining to descent through male lines.

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