Lineage synonyms
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The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.
Parental heritage; family line; lineage
(Mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
Plural form of progenitor
Ancestral descent or lineage.
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Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
Birth is defined as a baby emerging from a mother's womb or the start of something.
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
Lineage; ancestry
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.
(Archaic) Kinship
The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc. [from 16th c.]
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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 race, family, or other related group of animals or plants.
A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
(Stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
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By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.
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.
Seeds considered as a group:
The definition of a house is a building or shelter where people or animals live.
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kin (related)
A relative or family member:
precede (related)
precede (plural precedes) Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
linage (related)
The number of lines of printed or written material.
the descendants of one individual
the descendants of one individual
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The branch thus formed.
progenitor (related)
descendant (related)
descendent (related)
ancestor (related)
Plural form of forefather
The definition of a breed is a group of animals that has a specific characteristic or trait.
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Find another word for lineage. In this page you can discover 42 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for lineage, like: genealogy, blood, derivation, ancestors, progenitors, family, ancestry, background, birth, clan and descent.
