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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of genealogy; relating to or exhibiting the succession of offspring from a progenitor.
  • According to or characterized by descent from a common ancestor: as, genealogical order.
  • In zoology, a graphic representation of the supposed derivation by descent with modification of any group of animals from their ancestral or primitive stock; a phylum. Such trees or phyla, now in common use, are the same in idea and purpose as ordinary genealogical trees, with the names of the groups of animals supposed to have been successively evolved in place of the names of persons. See phylum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Genealogical.

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  • adjective Archaic form of genealogical.

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  • adjective of or relating to genealogy

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