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Descent :: Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

Homogeny :: Homogeny (n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence

Clivity :: Clivity (n.) Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.

Ancestry :: Ancestry (n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent..

Blood :: Blood (n.) Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

Steepened :: Steep-down (a.) Deep and precipitous, having steep descent..

Perquisite :: Perquisite (n.) Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara..

Incandescent :: Incandescent (a.) White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant..

Descending :: Descending (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

Flake :: Flake (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash..

Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..

Rainfall :: Rainfall (n.) A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region..

Pedigree :: Pedigree (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

Iridescence :: Iridescence (n.) Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc..

Entail :: Entail (n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue..

Purchaser :: Purchaser (n.) One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance..

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