Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having many lines.

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

  • adjective Having many lines.

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  • adjective Having many lines.

Etymologies

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multi- +‎ lineal

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Examples

  • Nor is any such multilineal map known to have appeared in England before that time.

    Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

  • Nor is any such multilineal map known to have appeared in England before that time.

    Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

  • Indonesia, may lend support to the multilineal or "branching" view of human evolution.

    unknown title 2009

  • Indonesia, may lend support to the multilineal or "branching" view of human evolution.

    unknown title 2009

  • Indonesia, may lend support to the multilineal or "branching" view of human evolution.

    unknown title 2009

  • The answer to this question will tend to support either the unilineal or multilineal view of human evolution and is, therefore, of great importance to our general understanding of human origins.

    unknown title 2008

  • Over the course of the last half century, more or less since the discovery of the Australopithecine hominid fossils in East Africa, which confirmed that human ancestry stretches back millions of years, there have been two general views of human evolution-the unilineal on the one hand and the multilineal or branching view on the other.

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  • The contrary school of thought, the multilineal or branching view, has held that although the human mode of adaptation is indeed different from those of other animals, its influence on hominid biological evolution has not been as great as is portrayed by the unilinealists, at least not until the emergence of modern humans.

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