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ancestry, lineage, filiation, deriving, etymologizing Definition: drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation;drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body;inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline;a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions;(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase;the source from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation";(descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation: `singer'' from `sing''; `undo'' from `do'';
Hyponyms: breed, strain, origin, descent, extraction, pedigree, bloodline Attributes: purebred, crossbred Derivational Morphology:
derive, come, descend, deduce, infer, deduct, etymologize, etymologise, educe
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