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from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of a clan in which descent is reckoned from mother to children: opposed to agnatic, which designates clans in which descent is reckoned from father to children.
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- adjective
enate (related through female line).
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- adjective related on the mother's side
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