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Phratry

noun
(pl. phratries)
1.
People descended from a common ancestor.  Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept.






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"Phratry" Quotes from Famous Books



... the third. Thus were produced three new generations from each parent pair. All these then became clanship groups bearing names now applied to various Navaho clans. The four generations, including the original pairs, formed phratries, which have no names. The clans in each phratry in the order ...
— The North American Indian • Edward S. Curtis



Words linked to "Phratry" :   parentage, house, dynasty, ancestry, blood line, homefolk, stemma, bloodline, origin, family, line, blood, name, lineage, line of descent, people, gens, pedigree, stock, descent



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