| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| LINEAGE | Descent from an ancestor | |
| BLOOD | Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. | |
| LINEAL | Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant. | |
| INHERITANCE | That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent. | |
| GENEALOGY | An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree. | |
| HOMOPLASMY | ...in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstanc... | |
| INHERIT | To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one su... | |
| GENERATION | A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same geneal... | |
| HOMOGENY | The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced cor... | |