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Homoplasmy :: Homoplasmy (n.) Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances..

Progenitor :: Progenitor (n.) An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..

Tradition :: Tradition (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials..

Father :: Father (n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors..

Issue :: Issue (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants..

Grandfather :: Grandfather (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

Descendant :: Descendant (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant..

Family :: Family (v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal..

Line :: Line (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings..

Motherland :: Motherland (n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.

Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor..

Atavic :: Atavic (a.) Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism..

Metronymic :: Metronymic (a.) Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. -- A metronymic appellation..

Agnatic :: Agnatic (a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

Forerunner :: Forerunner (n.) A predecessor; an ancestor.

Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..

Home :: Home (n.) One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.

Pedigree :: Pedigree (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

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