matrilineal sib

1. 1.

   one related on the mother's side

   Synonymsenatematrikinmatrilineal kinmatrisib

   Broaderrelative

Questions about matrilineal sib

What does matrilineal sib mean?

matrilineal sib means "one related on the mother's side".

What is another word for matrilineal sib?

Close synonyms include enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrisib. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is matrilineal sib a common word?

matrilineal sib 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.