matriarchal

Her performance as the quick-witted matriarchal figure won her three Primetime Emmy awards, a Bafta, a Golden Globe and four Screen Actors Guild awards.

Reis: We are a very matriarchal society; the women are the life-givers, the caregivers, the hunters, it’s not women stay here, while men do this — especially where I come from, we are the decision makers, we are with the clan mothers.

Thy live in matriarchal groups of about 10 and sometimes meet up with hundreds or thousands of other whales.

These matriarchal battle queens are scandalous too.

Woolly mammoths lived and died in the ancient past; their matriarchal lines are entirely broken by the permanence of extinction.