mindmap root((MATR/MATER)) maternity The state of being a mother; motherhood.
🌱It's quite possible that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of maternity, and that the painting marks the recent birth of her child Andrea. 🌳Maternity is used as both a noun and an adjective. Maternity benefits are benefits specially provided by employers for women having babies, and usually include maternity leave, time off work. With maternity come maternal feelings, which are shown by all species of warm-blooded animals as well as a few reptiles such as crocodiles and alligators. matriarch A woman who controls a family, group, or government.
🌱Every August all the grown children and their families are summoned to the estate by the matriarch. 🌳A matriarchy is a social unit governed by a woman or group of women. It isn't certain that a true matriarchal society has ever existed, so matriarchy is usually treated as an imaginative concept. But there are societies in which relatedness through women rather than men is stressed, and elements of matriarchy may be stronger in certain societies than they are in most of the Western world. And most of us can point to families in which a woman has become the dominant figure, or grande dame, or matriarch. matrilineal Based on or tracing the family through the mother.
🌱Many of the peoples of Ghana in Africa trace their family through matrilineal connections. 🌳A person's lineage is his or her line of ancestors. So matrilineal means basically "through the mother's line," just as patrilineal means "through the father's line." Matrilineality is an important concept in anthropology; among other things, it usually determines who will inherit property on a person's death. Though families that follow the European model take the father's name and are therefore patrilineal, matrilineal societies have existed around the world, including among various American Indian tribes. matrix 1、 Something （such as a situation or a set of conditions） in which something else develops or forms.
2、 Something shaped like a pattern of lines and spaces.
🌱The country's political matrix is so complex that no one who hasn't lived there could possibly understand it. 🌳In ancient Rome, a matrix was a female animal kept for breeding, or a plant （sometimes called a "parent plant" or "mother plant"） whose seeds were used for producing other plants. In English the word has taken on many related meanings. Mathematicians use it for a rectangular organization of numbers or symbols that can be used to make various calculations; geologists use it for the soil or rock in which a fossil is discovered, like a baby in the womb. And matrix was a good choice as the name of the reality in which all humans find themselves living in a famous series of science-fiction films.