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patrilineally is an adverb meaning "by descent through the male line". It carries one recorded sense.
by descent through the male line
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for patrilineally come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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