1. used to describe the relationship between father and child that continues in a family with each generation, or something that is based on this relationship
   • ● In that society, inheritance of land is patrilineal (= the children get the land that their father owned).
   Compare : matrilinealTopics
   Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Latin pater, patr- ‘father’ + lineal.

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