motherline

plural motherlines

1. Synonym of matriline.

   The motherline is also our unifier.

   2021, Lara Veleda Vesta, Wild Soul Runes, page 14

   2 more examples

   Daughters develop and nurture their female subjectivity and creativity by identifying with their mothers and relating with their motherline

   2010, Andrea O'Reilly, Encyclopedia of Motherhood, volume 1, page 261

   Contrary to them, a group of Amazonian women, the Riding Women, descend from escapees from the Holdfast and define themselves by their motherlines.

   2015, Miriam Wallraven, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture, page 158

   Synonyms: matriline