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bloodline
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bloodline
n.
line of descent, pedigree (usually pertaining to animals)
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Heredity
Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism. Through heredity, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause some species to evolve through the natural selection of specific phenotype traits. The study of heredity in biology is called genetics, which includes the field of epigenetics.
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bloodline
Noun
1. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
(synonym) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
(hypernym) genealogy, family tree
(hyponym) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
2. ancestry of a purebred animal
(synonym) pedigree
(hypernym) ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
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bloodline
Synonyms and related words:
affiliation, apparentation, birth, blood, branch, breed, common ancestry, consanguinity, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side, extraction, family, female line, filiation, house, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, phylum, race, seed, sept, side, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side,
affiliation, apparentation, birth, blood, branch, breed, common ancestry, consanguinity, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side, extraction, family, female line, filiation, house, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, phylum, race, seed, sept, side, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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