"ancestry" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin
subtypes:
- family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept - people descended from a common ancestor
- side - a family line of descent
same as: blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
tells us about:
- purebred - bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain
- crossbred - bred from parents of different varieties or species
is a type of: hereditary pattern, inheritance - (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
subtypes:
- descent, extraction, origin - properties attributable to your ancestry
- bloodline, pedigree - ancestry of a purebred animal
same as: derivation, filiation, lineage