matricentric

1. 1.

   centered upon the mother

   Similarmatriarchal

Questions about matricentric

What does matricentric mean?

matricentric means "centered upon the mother".

How many syllables are in matricentric?

matricentric has 4 syllables and divides as ma-tri-cen-tric under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is matricentric a common word?

matricentric is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.