- lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
--1 is a kind of genealogy, family tree
--1 has particulars:family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry; breed; side - descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation - the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
--2 is a kind of kinship, family relationship, relationship
--2 has particulars: bilateral descent; unilateral descent - linage, lineage - the number of lines in a piece of printed material
--3 is a kind of number
- linage, lineage - a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
--4 is a kind of rate, charge per unit
- ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation - inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
--5 is a kind of inheritance, hereditary pattern
--5 has particulars:breed, strain; origin, descent, extraction; pedigree, bloodline