4.1.9.1 Related by birth

Use this domain for words referring to being related by birth--when one of your ancestors and one of someone else's ancestors are the same person.

  1. (1) What words refer to being related by birth?

    Example words: related by blood, be descended from, descent, direct line, lineal descent, consanguine

  2. (2) What words refer to someone who is related to you by birth?

    Example words: blood relation

  3. (3) What words refer to a listing of your ancestors?

    Example words: genealogy, lineage, pedigree, family tree

  4. (4) What words refer to inheriting physical traits from your ancestors?

    Example words: genetics, inherit, heredity, run in the family, pass on, take after, bad blood, genes, breeding

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