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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE ancient ▪ With his ancient lineage , his three-hundred-year-old title, and the long-dead Gabriella still representing his only true love? ▪ Who can say now that the dish is not, in fact, of ancient Norman lineage ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lineage \Lin"e*age\ (l[i^]n"[-e]*[asl]j; 48), n. [OE. linage, F. lignage, fr. L. linea line. See 3d Line .] Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage. Both the lineage and the ...
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A genetic lineage is a series of mutations which connect an ancestral genetic type ( allele , haplotype , or haplogroup ) to derivative type. In cases where the genetic tree is very bushy the order of mutations in the lineage is mostly known, examples are ...
Usage examples of lineage.
The primary unit within the tribe is the named agnatic lineage several generations deep to which each member belongs.
Severeemish, in part through the queen of Agora, had been couched in terms of blood and lineage.
One day they might spend several hours poring over scrolls of royal lineage or sifting through the gems in the chest from the mantelpiece, Alec wide-eyed as Seregil extolled their properties and how to value them.
But with the anima, all other women after me would have magic, according to their lineage, and all men would be reduced to illusion.
So perhaps he had an edited cerebral chemistry, or an adaptive aural processing mutation in his derivative Kido lineage.
In the early 1950s, Sir Solly Zuckerman published extensive biometric studies showing Australopithecus was not as humanlike as imagined by those who favored putting this creature in the lineage of Homo sapiens.
Thepseudosuchian lineage eventually gave rise to crocodilians, probably in the Late Triassic.
The Crocodylotarsi lineage led to the crocodilians, while the Ornithosuchia lineage terminated in the dinosaurs and birds.
Well, fair sir, many deemed that though her lineage was known by seeming, yet she was of the fairy, and needed neither steed nor chariot to go where she would.
But even when the children of a successful emancipist achieved such Olympian heights, their flawed lineage remained and the whispers of the crinolined society matrons would continue for the next two generations.
Moreover, I encharge the said executors to take my body to Brittany, to the Church of Our Lady, where lie all those of my lineage of Rocasalada.
It came from Yian-Ho for a terrible purpose, and to me - who all too late know the thing stream of van der Heyl blood that trickles down through the Sleghts into my own lineage - has descended the hideous task of fulfilling that purpose.
Like Barien, she can trace her lineage back to the Hierophantic migration.
And all this was due, not to my royal lineage, nor to the deeds I had done and the champions I had overthrown, but to a certain hogskin belt buckled next the skin.
If you could trace your lineage straight back in the male line to Iulus, Aeneas, Anchises, and the goddess Venus, you were secure enough to find it no comedown to mix with anyone from a dockside worker to a Caecilius Metellus.