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Matriarchal

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Governed by (or as if by) a matriarch.
  2. 2
    Governed by females, rather than by males.
Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of a matriarchy wordnet

Etymology

From matriarch + -al.

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