ENATE

enate

Noun

  1. A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
    A great grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
  2. Any maternal female relative.

Adjective

  1. Related to someone by female connections.
  2. Related on the maternal side of the family.
  3. Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
  4. Growing out.


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