Lineage Synonyms
lĭn'ē-ĭj
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Synonyms for Lineage
The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.
Plural form of progenitor
Plural form of forefather
Ancestors considered as a group.
(Countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
The spilling of blood; murder
By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.
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The fact or process of being derived or developing from a source:
Origin; lineage:
(Informal) Glib or insincere talk, usually intended to deceive or impress:
Origin is the start, center or beginning of something or the place where a person comes from.
Of or pertaining to one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
A line of ancestors; a lineage.
Seeds considered as a group:
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Any of a number of plants of the crucifer family, as evening stock (Mathiola bicornis), or Virginian stock (Malcomia maritima)
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
The definition of a house is a building or shelter where people or animals live.
(Stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
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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(Biology) A usually geographically isolated population of organisms that differs from other populations of the same species in certain heritable traits:
A simple eye present in certain insect larvae.
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A line of descendants of common ancestry; stock.
A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
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.
the descendants of one individual
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the descendants of one individual
The definition of a breed is a group of animals that has a specific characteristic or trait.
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A relative or family member:
precede (plural precedes) Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
linage
The number of lines of printed or written material.
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