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Plural of lineage

regular plural

The plural of lineage is lineages.

Forms of lineage

Singularlineage /ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/
Plurallineages /ˈlɪni.ɪdʒɪz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Lineages in a sentence

  • They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Stick insects survive one million years without sex”, in BBC, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2016
  • The Opisthobranchia are one of the more prominent gastropod lineages that have undergone euthyneury.From the entry euthyneury
  • This view is unrealistic in that neural and anatomical complexity evolved repeatedly within many independent lineages.2020, Joseph Cesario, David J. Johnson, Heather L. Eisthen, “Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside”, in Current Directions…. From the entry scala naturae
  • These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 8, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN. From the entry pod
  • These two lineages converged somewhere in the late Paleozoic or early Triassic in a common “Ur-ancestor.”2011, Dr. Gareth Dyke, Gary Kaiser, Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds. From the entry ur-ancestor

Meaning of lineage

  1. noun Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
  2. noun A number of lines of text in a column.
  3. noun A fee or rate paid per line of text.

Full definition of lineage

Questions about the plural of lineage

What is the plural of lineage?
The plural of lineage is lineages.
Is lineage countable?
Lineage is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lineage (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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