UNILATERAL DESCENT
Dictionary entry overview: What does unilateral descent mean? • UNILATERAL DESCENT (noun)
The noun UNILATERAL DESCENT has 1 sense:
1. line of descent traced through one side of the family
Familiarity information: UNILATERAL DESCENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNILATERAL DESCENT (noun)
Meaning:
Line of descent traced through one side of the family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("unilateral descent" is a kind of...):
descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unilateral descent"):
cognation; enation; matrilineage (line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family)
agnation; patrilineage (line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family)
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