female kin

Mother, sister, daughter

Female kin are relatives who are women or girls—mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, grandmothers, nieces, cousins.

The phrase appears in anthropology and legal contexts where gender distinctions matter: inheritance through female kin, obligations to female kin.

She was raised by her female kin after her parents died.

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aunt · maiden aunt · grandmother · great grandmother · niece · cousin · blood relative · matriarch · mama · grandma · auntie · stepmother · stepdaughter · stepsister · motherhood · sisterhood · lineage · maternal line

Opposites
gender of relatives

female kinkinsmen

Male family members

fathers · brothers · sons · uncles · nephews

relation vs. non-relation

female kinstrangers

People unknown to you

non-relatives · outsiders · acquaintances

Family

female, females, male, kin, kinship, kindred, kind, kinsman, kinswoman

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