FILIATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

Synonyms:

ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("filiation" is a kind of...):

hereditary pattern; inheritance ((genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents)

Attribute:

purebred (bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain)

crossbred (bred from parents of different varieties or species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "filiation"):

descent; extraction; origin (properties attributable to your ancestry)

bloodline; pedigree (ancestry of a purebred animal)

Meaning:

The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Synonyms:

descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("filiation" is a kind of...):

family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "filiation"):

bilateral descent (line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family)

unilateral descent (line of descent traced through one side of the family)

Derivation:

filiate (fix the paternity of)