bloodline

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended <came from a bloodline that could be traced back to the 12th century> Synonyms birth, blood, ancestry, breeding, descent, extraction, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock, strainRelated Words heredity, succession; family, house; kin, kindred, relations, relatives; raceNear Antonyms offspring; child, heir, inheritor, son, successorAntonyms issue, posterity, progeny, seed