UNILATERAL DESCENT

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 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)

Sense 1

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)