Synonyms of lineages

lineages

noun

plural of lineage

1

as in ancestries

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended

his Italian lineage was very important to him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ancestries
• pedigrees
• genealogies
• origins
• families
• descents
• bloodlines
• breedings
• blood
• strains
• extractions
• births
• stocks
• family trees
• lines
• relatives
• successions
• parentages
• races
• relations
• houses
• kindreds
• kins
• heredities

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• issues
• seed
• progenies
• offspring
• posterities
• sons
• children
• successors
• heirs
• inheritors

2

as in families

a group of persons who come from the same ancestor

it is now generally accepted that the lineage of Thomas Jefferson includes black as well as white members

Synonyms & Similar Words

• families
• tribes
• clans
• houses
• races
• people
• descendants
• dynasties
• folks
• blood
• households
• kindreds
• stocks
• kins
• kinsfolk
• lines
• kinfolks
• relatives
• progenies
• offspring
• scions
• nuclear families
• extended families
• issues
• broods
• seed
• clansmen
• kinsmen
• blended families
• kiths
• kinswomen

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• origins
• births
• pedigrees
• extractions
• descents
• ancestries

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lineages

But researchers were able to show that over hundreds of thousands of years, the gentoo has diverged into four distinct evolutionary lineages, each of which the researchers say should be its own species. — Violet Jira, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2026

When the catastrophe wiped out their massive non-avian relatives, the bird lineages that survived were positioned to take advantage of newly vacant ecological niches. — Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

The researchers have shared their findings with the IUCN, whose upcoming review will assess the five lineages separately. — CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2026

When a massive asteroid impact triggered a global extinction 66 million years ago, almost all dinosaurs and early bird lineages died out. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

In the healing traditions of northern Peru, curanderos, or traditional healers, usually train through years of apprenticeship, often within family lineages. — Pardis Mahdavi, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026

In addition, the way in initial cases occurred in clusters within the market and the distribution of the earliest viral lineages, is consistent with the likelihood that several separate animal-to-human spillover events took place in late 2019. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Aug. 2026

Rather than reflecting genuinely absent enzymes, these gaps could simply mirror methodological limitations in the phylogenetic reconstruction that prevented the identification of all the original ancient enzymes in bacterial and archaean lineages. — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026

The fossil indicates that lineages closely related to the Euparkeriidae were also present in South America, highlighting the continent’s role in the early diversification of the relatives of dinosaurs and crocodiles. — The Conversation, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026