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Meanings of metronymic in English
Usage of metronymic in English
1
The Iroquois Indians, among whom Morgan lived, were a typical maternal or metronymic people.
2
Among many tribes of the North American Indians this metronymic or maternal system was peculiarly well-developed.
3
Strictly speaking, therefore, there has never been a matriarchal stage of social evolution, but rather a maternal or metronymic stage.
Frequent collocations
Metronymic through the time