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blood·line

(blŭd′līn′)

Direct line of descent; pedigree.

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bloodline

(ˈblʌdˌlaɪn)

(Sociology) all the members of a family group over generations, esp regarding characteristics common to that group; pedigree

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blood•line

(ˈblʌdˌlaɪn)

n.

1. (usu. of animals) the line of descent; pedigree; strain.

2. ancestry; family.

[1905–10]

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Noun	1.	bloodline - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" ancestry, blood line, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, blood, descent, origin, stock, line kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folk, family - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" side - a family line of descent; "he gets his brains from his father's side" family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin
	2.	bloodline - ancestry of a purebred animal pedigree ancestry, filiation, lineage, derivation - inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

bloodline

noun

One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation:

ancestry, birth, blood, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock.

Translations

bloodline

[ˈblʌdlaɪn] N → línea f de sangre, línea f de parentesco por consanguinidad
the Celtic royal bloodline descended through the mother's side → la línea de sangre de la realeza celta venía por parte de la madre

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bloodline

[ˈblʌdlaɪn] n → lignée fblood loss n → perte f de sangblood lust blood-lust [ˈblʌdlʌst] n → soif f de sangblood money n → prix m du sangblood orange n → orange f sanguineblood poisoning n → septicémie fblood pressure n → tension f (artérielle)
to take sb's blood pressure → prendre la tension (artérielle) de qn
to have high blood pressure → faire de l'hypertension
to have low blood pressure → faire de l'hypotensionblood product n → produit m sanguinblood pudding n (US) → boudin m noirblood-red [ˌblʌdˈrɛd]

n → rouge m inv sang

adj → rouge sang invblood relation blood relative n (male) → parent m (par le sang); (female) → parente f (par le sang)blood sample n → échantillon m de sang
to take a blood sample → prélever un échantillon de sang
to give a blood sample → se faire prélever du sangblood sausage n (US) → boudin m noir

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

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