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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]
2: ancestry of a purebred animal [syn: pedigree, bloodline]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1896 a sequence of direct ancestors especially in a pedigree; also family, strain

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bloodlines) A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors. N-COUNT: usu with supp

Moby Thesaurus

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