Matrilocal Definition
mătrə-lōkəl
adjective
Of or relating to a housing pattern or custom in which a married couple lives with or near the wife's parents.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the tendency of males to leave their natal group and reside in or mate with females of a different group.
Groups of monkeys that are matrilocal.
American Heritage
(anthropology, of a people of culture) In which newly married couples live with the female's family.
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