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sublineages

sublineages is the plural of sublineage.

Meaning of sublineage

Noun

sublineage (plural sublineages)

  1. A subordinate part of a lineage
    • At that time, before sublineation had become significant for the local group, banishment would have amounted to dismissing a troublesome individual and his wife and children, rather than an entire sublineage consisting of several families ...1961, Louis C. Faron, Mapuche Social Structure, page 97

Questions about sublineages

What is sublineages the plural of?
Sublineages is the plural of sublineage.

Words near sublineages in the dictionary

  1. sublimizes
  2. sublimizing
  3. sublimnic
  4. subline
  5. sublineage
  6. sublineages
  7. sublinear
  8. sublinearities
  9. sublinearity
  10. sublinearly
  11. sublineate

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