Lineage synonyms

genealogy

The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.

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progenitors

Plural form of progenitor

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ancestry

Ancestral descent or lineage.

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birth

Birth is defined as a baby emerging from a mother's womb or the start of something.

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blood

Parental heritage; family line; lineage

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family (related)

(Countable) A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family.

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background

Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.

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clan

An early form of social group, as in the Scottish Highlands, composed of several families claiming descent from a common ancestor, bearing the same family name, and following the same chieftain

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descent

Lineage; ancestry

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heredity

Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.

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pedigree

The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc. [from 16th c.]

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race

(Biology) A usually geographically isolated population of organisms that differs from other populations of the same species in certain heritable traits:

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stemma

A simple eye present in certain insect larvae.

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stirps

A line of descendants of common ancestry; stock.

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stock

A race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.

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succession

A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.

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tree

A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).

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tribe

(Stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

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bloodline

By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.

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extraction

Origin; lineage:

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line

(Informal) Glib or insincere talk, usually intended to deceive or impress:

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origin

Origin is the start, center or beginning of something or the place where a person comes from.

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parentage

Of or pertaining to one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.

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seed

Seeds considered as a group:

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house

The definition of a house is a building or shelter where people or animals live.

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kindred

(Often plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively.

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flesh-and-blood

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kith-and-kin

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kin (related)

A relative or family member:

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precede (related)

precede (plural precedes) Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)

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linage (related)

The number of lines of printed or written material.

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derivation

The process by which words are formed from existing words or bases by adding affixes, as singer from sing or undo from do, by changing the shape of the word or base, as song from sing, or by adding an affix and changing the pronunciation of the word or base, as electricity from electric.

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line of descent

the descendants of one individual

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blood line

the descendants of one individual

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