gynophoric (jinoforik)

[ ic, etc.] Of or pertaining to government by -ic.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a gyn women. The gynæcratic habits of the race are manifested in the names of all these kings, which were formed by a combination of those of their parents, the mother's generally preceding that of the father. Encyc. Brit ., XXIII. 345. gyneocracy, gynæocracy (jin-e-ok'ra-si), n. Same as gynecocracy. The Mother-right and gyneocracy among the Iroquois here plainly indicated is not overdrawn. L. H. Morgan, Amer. Ethnol., p. 66.