patriclann.

1937 W. E. Lawrence in G. P. Murdock Stud. Sci. of Society 319 ‘Patri-clan’ and ‘matri-clan’, denoting small exogamous kin-groups with patrilineal and matrilineal descent respectively, are suggested to eliminate monotonous repetition of adjectives.

1957 Contrib. Indian Sociol. 1 52 Incidentally, ‘patri-clan’ is not taken here in the sense of ‘patrilineal clan’, but of the father's clan.

1959 G. D. Mitchell Sociol. iv. 69 The Tallensi seem to make a distinction between offences committed by a man with a member of the same patri-clan, such as with a paternal aunt, daughter, or sister,..and offences committed by a man with the wife of a member of the same patri-clan, such as the wife of a father, brother, or son.

1975 G. A. Collier Fields in Tzotzil iii. 61 The second..is that Mayah social structure was and is characterized by patrilocal extended families, patrilineages, and, in some cases, fully developed patri-clans.

1987 Amer. Ethnologist 14 732 The accident victim..had met his death because of the ill will of certain people in the ex-chief's patriclan.