blood

1. The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets (synset 105407190)
   "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"
   referred to in: craniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
   is a type of: bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance - the liquid parts of the body
   subtypes:

   • arterial blood - blood found in arteries
   • blood group, blood type - human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens
   • gore - coagulated blood from a wound
   • lifeblood - the blood considered as the seat of vitality
   • blood stream, bloodstream - the blood flowing through the circulatory system
   • blood clot, grume - a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells
   • cord blood - blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth
   • menorrhea, menstrual blood, menstrual flow - flow of blood from the uterus; occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years
   • venous blood - blood found in the veins
   • whole blood - blood that has not been modified except for the addition of an anticoagulant
   has: blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle - either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
   substance holonym: blood serum, serum - an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates
2. Temperament or disposition (synset 104636104)
   "a person of hot blood"
   is a type of: disposition, temperament - your usual mood
3. A dissolute man in fashionable society (synset 110525535)
   is a type of: debauchee, libertine, rounder - a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
   same as: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue
4. The descendants of one individual (synset 108118903)
   "his entire lineage has been warriors"
   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: ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
5. People viewed as members of a group (synset 107960894)
   "we need more young blood in this organization"
   is a type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively

1. Smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill (synset 201236206)
   is a type of: daub, smear - cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

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