descent

Meanings

• a movement downward
• properties attributable to your ancestry
• the act of changing your location in a downward direction
• the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
• a downward slope or bend
• the descendants of one individual

Synonyms

ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, extraction, fall, filiation, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock