Concept cluster: Social systems > Patrilineal descent
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Relating to an allofather
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Having two fathers.
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(now rare, genealogy) A collateral (not linear) family member.
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Relating to both parents
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Related on the maternal side of the family.
adj
Of or pertaining to a human family.
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(collective) The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring
adj
having the qualities of a father
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The virtue of showing respect and doing good deeds for one's parents, elders, and ancestors, as understood in Confucian ethics and commonly observed in the East Asian cultural sphere.
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(countable, law) The determination of paternity.
adj
Expressing, or characterised by, filial piety.
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(chiefly Scotland) An ancestor.
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ancestor
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A female ancestor.
n
(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
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(chiefly literary, idiomatic) One's child or, collectively, one's children or descendants.
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a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
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(obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
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The practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry into the less socially dominant of the parents' races.
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An ancestor or descendant.
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Pertaining to matriarchy.
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(anthropology) A group or clan claiming matrilineal descent from a (usually legendary) female ancestor
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(anthropology) Family structure in which mothers head families and fathers play a less important role in the home and in bringing up children.
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(anthropology) The state or condition of being matrifocal.
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By extension; of, relating to, or derived from the given name of a female ancestor.
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(genetics) The matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all currently living humans, i.e., the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely through their mothers, and through the mothers of those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman.
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Of the same father.
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(biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
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The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
adj
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a parent; parental.
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Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
adj
Of or pertaining to paternalism.
n
One who paternalizes.
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The process of becoming (and coming to inhabit the role of) a father.
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Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
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(anthropology) A clan, with membership determined by patrilineal descent from a common ancestor.
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patrilateral kin
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(anthropology) A descent group coming from the father's side.
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Having traits mostly inherited from the male parent
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A name acquired from one's father.
adj
Obsolete form of patronymic. [Derived from one's father.]
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The practice of naming children after their fathers.
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A female progenitor, a foremother, any of a person's direct female ancestors (ancestresses).
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(medicine) A child who is born to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.)
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(rare) One's direct progeny or offspring.
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(obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
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A name for an adult derived from that of a child, especially that of the eldest child.
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One who believes that a child's soul is inherited from its parents.
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(Nigeria, politics) A patriarchal societal tendency whereby women can only achieve things as the wives of men of rank.

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