Blood
Blood noun - A group of persons who come from the same ancestor.
Usage example: in his mind, blood came before anything else, and he would not betray his criminal brother to the police
Line is a synonym for blood in ancestry topic. In some cases you can use "Line" instead a noun "Blood", when it comes to topics like kin, origin, blood line.
Line
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Bloodless Carnage: Due to the game engine, it's merely a red line and blood isn't shown... at first.
Source: Fanfic / Fate Revelation Online -
No senate recognizes their authority, no Pope elected them, they seldom have need for Royal Blood or a line of succession.
Source: Evil Overlord -
Inverted with deep-sea tube worms, which have red blood like ours despite being from a taxonomic line in which iron-based blood pigment isn't expected.
Source: Alien Blood
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Line and Blood. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/blood/line
Blood & Line. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/blood/line>.
Line or Blood. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/blood/line.
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