Line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family.

synonyms: enation, matrilineage.

Roget 23: agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony; concord etc. 714; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding.    conformity etc. 82; conformance; uniformity etc. 16; consonance, consentaneousness^†, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.    fitness, aptness etc. adj.; relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey^†; sortance^†; case in point; aptitude, coaptation^†, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation etc. (relation) 9.    adaption^†, adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation, reconcilement; assimilation.    consent etc. (assent) 488; concurrence etc. 178; cooperation etc. 709.    right man in the right place, very thing; quite the thing, just the thing.    ... show more

Roget 9: relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern, cognation; correlation etc. 12; analogy; similarity etc. 17; affinity, homology, alliance, homogeneity, association; approximation etc. (nearness) 197; filiation etc. (consanguinity) 11; interest; relevancy etc. 23; dependency, relationship, relative position.    comparison etc. 464; ratio, proportion.    link, tie, bond of union.    ... show more

anthropology Related by blood.

synonyms: blood kinship, consanguinity.

Dutch: bloedverwantschap
Polish: pokrewieństwo, więzy krwi, parantela, pobratymstwo