"motherline" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fatherline"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mother",
        "3": "line"
      },
      "expansion": "mother + line",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mother + line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "motherlines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "motherline (plural motherlines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Andrea O'Reilly, Encyclopedia of Motherhood, volume 1, page 261:",
          "text": "Daughters develop and nurture their female subjectivity and creativity by identifying with their mothers and relating with their motherline",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Miriam Wallraven, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture, page 158:",
          "text": "Contrary to them, a group of Amazonian women, the Riding Women, descend from escapees from the Holdfast and define themselves by their motherlines.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Lara Veleda Vesta, Wild Soul Runes, page 14:",
          "text": "The motherline is also our unifier.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of matriline"
      ],
      "id": "en-motherline-en-noun-6ZFb8p5B",
      "links": [
        [
          "matriline",
          "matriline#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "matriline"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmʌðə(ɹ)laɪn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "motherline"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fatherline"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mother",
        "3": "line"
      },
      "expansion": "mother + line",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mother + line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "motherlines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "motherline (plural motherlines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Andrea O'Reilly, Encyclopedia of Motherhood, volume 1, page 261:",
          "text": "Daughters develop and nurture their female subjectivity and creativity by identifying with their mothers and relating with their motherline",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Miriam Wallraven, Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture, page 158:",
          "text": "Contrary to them, a group of Amazonian women, the Riding Women, descend from escapees from the Holdfast and define themselves by their motherlines.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Lara Veleda Vesta, Wild Soul Runes, page 14:",
          "text": "The motherline is also our unifier.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of matriline"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "matriline",
          "matriline#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "matriline"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmʌðə(ɹ)laɪn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "motherline"
}