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multilineal

multilineal adjective: having many lines, for example lines of descent.

Adjective

multilineal (comparative more multilineal, superlative most multilineal)

  1. Having many lines, for example lines of descent
    • multilineal evolution
    • multilineal kinship

Examples of multilineal in a sentence

  • multilineal sequence
  • This Map is multilineal in the extreme, and is the first in which the Eastern Islands are included1773, George Steevens, The Plays of Shakespeare with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators:

Forms of multilineal

comparativemore multilineal
superlativemost multilineal

Origin of multilineal

From multi- + lineal.

Words formed from multilineal

Questions about multilineal

What does multilineal mean?
Multilineal means having many lines, for example lines of descent.
How do you use multilineal in a sentence?
multilineal sequence
What part of speech is multilineal?
Multilineal is an adjective.

Words near multilineal in the dictionary

  1. multilighted
  2. multilimbed
  3. multiline
  4. multilineage
  5. multilineages
  6. multilineal
  7. multilineality
  8. multilineally
  9. multilinear
  10. multilinear form
  11. multilinear forms

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