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BLOOD LINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The descendants of one individual
Example:
his entire lineage has been warriors
Synonyms:
ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("blood line" is a kind of...):
family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood line"):
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)
side (a family line of descent)
