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A descendant; one who comes after another genealogically.
adj
of the male bloodline; patrilineal
n
A genealogical numbering system for listing a person's direct ancestors.
adj
Of or pertaining to both sides of a family.
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One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
n
(anthropology, religion) Veneration of the spirits of one’s ancestors.
adj
(less common) ancestral
n
The state of being an ancestor.
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The emphasis of the importance of one's foremothers, forefathers or lineage.
n
A proponent of ancestorism
n
The state of being an ancestor.
n
Obsolete spelling of ancestor [One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.]
n
A family tree or pedigree in which the ancestors, rather than the descendants of a particular person are shown
n
The practice of venerating one's ancestors.
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(countable) The possible or actual ancestors of an individual or species
adv
Pertaining to ancestry.
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A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
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(now rare) A person from whom one is descended.
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In kinship and descent, a common ancestor from whom a lineage or clan may trace its descent. The ancestor who is at the apex of the genealogy.
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A social concept, among the Anutans, of affection and empathy expressed through sharing and cooperation.
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A person from whom one is descended.
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Obsolete form of ancestor. [One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.]
n
Obsolete form of ancestor. [One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.]
n
Obsolete form of ancestry. [Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.]
n
(nonstandard) An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible
adj
(anthropology) Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family.
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Descent traced from an ancestor, regardless of sex and side of the family of the intervening generations.
adj
Tracing descent through both the patriline and the matriline.
adj
A familial relationship established by childbirth.
n
By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.
n
(UK, historical) Traceable ancestry to a certain location.
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A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
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Descent; pedigree; extraction.
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The bloodline (set of ancestors) of a brood
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The last ancestor common of two or more lineages, especially the last universal common ancestor of all life.
adj
Relating to cenancestors.
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
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(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
adj
Of or relating to a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both father and mother.
adj
Obsolete form of cognatic. [Of or relating to a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both father and mother.]
adj
(genealogy) Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
n
An ancestor that two or more descendants have in common.
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(biology, uncommon) The last common ancestor, especially of several different species.
adj
Synonym of consanguineous
adv
In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
v
(of a surname or of heritable property in a patrilineal naming or inheritance system) To expire due to having only females surviving the death of the last male in a line.
n
The property of being a descendant; descent.
n
(countable) Descendants considered collectively.
n
One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
adj
Alternative spelling of descendant [Descending; going down]
adj
Relating to descendants.
n
Lineage or hereditary derivation.
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(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, whether real or fictitious, whether traceable through linear genealogies or untraceable; a clan or lineage.
adj
In the line of descent; not collateral.
adj
enate (related through female bloodline)
n
A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives
adj
(genetics) Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
n
cultural ancestor; one who originated an idea or tradition.
n
A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.
n
A branching stochastic process arising from the statistical investigation of the extinction of family names, which are modelled as patrilineal, while offspring are randomly either male or female, and names become extinct if holders die without male descendants. It is useful in understanding human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups.
n
A person who studies or practises genealogy, an expert in genealogy.
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(countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
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A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
n
a generator; an originator
n
(Ancient Rome, historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.
adj
Indicative of the family or lineage.
adj
(obsolete) hereditary; entailed on a family
n
(archaic) Lineage; family background.
n
lineage of either the male or the female line
n
The practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry into the more socially dominant of the parents' races.
n
An offspring or scion, especially of a noble family; (generally) a (usually male) child; a (young) man.
n
A genealogical coefficient of a given genealogical tree; defined as the difference between the number of theoretical ancestors of a person and the number of his/her real ones in a given generation (the degree of pedigree collapse).
adj
(often derogatory) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
n
(figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
n
Alternative spelling of lineage [Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.]
n
A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
n
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
adv
(genealogy) By direct descent.
n
(anthropology) A clan, with membership determined by matrilineal descent from a common ancestor.
n
A line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are mothers.
n
lineage based upon the maternal line
adj
(anthropology) Tracing descent only through female ancestors.
n
(anthropology) matrilineage
adj
Alternative form of matrilineal [(anthropology) Tracing descent only through female ancestors.]
n
Synonym of matrilinealism
adj
Alternative form of matrilineal [(anthropology) Tracing descent only through female ancestors.]
n
(anthropology) A descent group coming from the mother's side.
adj
Of, relating to, or derived from the given name of one's mother.
n
(usually noun adjunct) Multiple lineages
n
All of a person's descendants, including further generations.
n
Obsolete spelling of offspring [A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.]
n
(in the plural) Ancestry.
n
(archaic) Lineage, parentage; rank, especially as high or noble.
n
(figuratively) Origin; derivation.
adj
(of a family or society) Centering around the father or fathers.
adj
Alternative form of patroclinous [Having traits mostly inherited from the male parent]
adj
(anthropology) From kin 'on the father's side' (related to the father).
n
A line of descent from a male ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are fathers.
n
A group of descendants related through a common male lineage.
adj
(anthropology) Pertaining to descent through male lines.
n
(uncountable, anthropology) The condition of being patrilineal.
adj
Alternative form of patrilineal [(anthropology) Pertaining to descent through male lines.]
n
The condition of being patrilinear
adj
Alternative form of patrilineal [(anthropology) Pertaining to descent through male lines.]
adj
(anthropology, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.
adj
Legally (or otherwise) inherited from one or more ancestors.
adj
(genetics) Relating to a lineage.
adj
(by extension) Derived from one's ancestors.
n
Obsolete form of patronymic. [A name acquired from one's father.]
n
A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
n
(genealogy) The phenomenon in which ancestral inbreeding causes the number of a descendant’s distinct ancestors to be smaller than that predicted by a binary tree (∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ 2ⁱ, where n represents the number of generations).
n
A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
n
(Ancient Greece) A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common ancestor and having certain collective functions and responsibilities.
n
All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
adj
Relating to primogeniture.
n
(figuratively) One who originates or creates something.
adj
Proceeding from, or as if from, a parent; derived, as from an ancestor.
n
(rare) A progenitor; a direct ancestor.
n
An individual from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation...) are descended.
adj
Relating to a progenitor
n
Obsolete form of progenitor. [A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.]
n
(evolutionary theory, loosely) The most recent common ancestor to all organisms now living on Earth; LUCA; specifically, the most recent progenitor of all archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes.
n
(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
n
An attitude or ideology promoting child-bearing; advocacy of having children, especially from the State.
n
The first identified male case of an inherited disease in a family; the proband or index case.
n
Alternative form of protoancestor [The earliest ancestor]
n
The first person in a given family, lineage etc.; an ancestor.
n
(anthropology) A cognatic descent group.
n
The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
n
A female scion; a female descendant or an heiress, especially of a wealthy or important family.
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Archaic spelling of scion. [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
A familial line of descent that can be traced to a certain seed.
n
(obsolete) A person's descendants.
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
A line of descent traced through a particular parent, as distinguished from that traced through another.
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
n
An Australian Aborigine social division, which is inherited from the mother and which determines who one can marry and how one relates to others.
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The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
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(law) branches, lines of descent, used in the legal expression per stirpes.
n
(by extension) Lineage, family, ancestry.
n
(anthropology) A system of forming kinship groups that subdivide a major lineage into subgroups of more closely related individuals.
n
Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
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Obsolete spelling of scion [A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.]
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The belief that, in the case of siblings from the same mother but different fathers, the second sibling could inherit characteristics from the father of the first.
adj
Pertaining to the belief that one's soul is inherited from one's parents.
n
(rare) A forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general.
adj
Of or relating to a single family.
adj
(genealogy) Of or pertaining to one side of a family.
n
(anthropology) The tracing of descent through ancestors of only one gender.
n
An original ancestor; proto-ancestor.
adj
(anthropology) Patrilocal.
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