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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor;
[syn: matronymic, metronymic]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Matronymic \Mat`ro*nym"ic\, n. [L. mater mother + -nymic, as in patronimic.] See Metronymic. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

matronymic n 1: a name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor [syn: matronymic, metronymic]