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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Anthropology Of or relating to residence with a wife's kin group or clan.
  • adjective Zoology Of or relating to the tendency of males to leave their natal group and reside in or mate with females of a different group.

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  • adjective of a married couple Living with the family of the wife; uxorilocal.
  • adjective anthropology In which newly married couples live with the female's family.

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Examples

  • These sometimes are "matrilocal" families where the brother lives with his sister and her children, while her husband and other lovers may live with their sisters.

    Archive 2004-02-15 Steve Sailer 2004

  • These sometimes are "matrilocal" families where the brother lives with his sister and her children, while her husband and other lovers may live with their sisters.

    Africa, AIDS, and multiple concurrent relationships Steve Sailer 2004

  • They are matrilocal, meaning that males disperse at sexual maturity and females stay put, forming the backbone of gelada society.

    NYT > Home Page By NOAH SNYDER-MACKLER 2010

  • The archaeologist Paul Kirchhoff wrote that the following traits characterized the Guachichile Indians: "painting of the body; coloration of the hair; head gear; matrilocal residence; freedom of the married woman; special forms of cruelty to enemies"

    The indigenous past of Zacatecas 2008

  • The archaeologist Paul Kirchhoff wrote that the following traits characterized the Guachichile Indians: "painting of the body; coloration of the hair; head gear; matrilocal residence; freedom of the married woman; special forms of cruelty to enemies"

    The indigenous past of Zacatecas 2008

  • ‘Tharwad’ is thus a matrilineal, matrilocal family.

    The sociological concept of joint family in India India 2009

  • Marriages were matrilocal, inheritance matrilineal.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • Are patrilocal arrangements more likely to be lousy for women than matrilocal ones?

    Sisterhood is Powerful: Lessons from Gelada & Hamadryas Baboons Field Notes 2008

  • The technique gives the demographer something concrete to work with, for written records on men are much more readily available than those on women; but it certainly requires strenuous qualification if used in the Newfoundland context, for it mutes the matrilineal bridges and matrilocal/uxorilocal residence patterns that often predated patrilineal-patrilocal patterns in early settlement.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Matrilineal bridges often factored in the clustering of families in particular coves and harbors; and matrilocal or uxorilocal residence patterns played a crucial role in community formation, as many couples established themselves on land already occupied by the wife or apportioned from or adjacent to the family property of the wife.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

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