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FILIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)
