kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folk, family - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

breed - a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"

side - a family line of descent; "he gets his brains from his father's side"

family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin

family relationship, kinship, relationship - state of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption

bilateral descent - line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family

unilateral descent - line of descent traced through one side of the family

number - a concept of quantity derived from zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence"

charge per unit, rate - amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis; "a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5"

hereditary pattern, inheritance - (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

breed, strain - a lineage or race of people

descent, extraction, origin - properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"

bloodline, pedigree - ancestry of a purebred animal