family line
noun
A line of descent; a family viewed as a series of descendants.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Robert Fleming (1630–1694), Presbyterian minister in the Netherlands.
- middle-of-the-roadism
- middle-of-the-roadness
- middle oil
- middle order
- middle passage
- middle path
- middle peasant
- middle period
- Middle Persian
- middle piece
- Middle Platonism
- Middle Platonist
- middle post
- middle power
- middle price
- middler
- middle rail
- middle-range
- middle rank
- middle-ranking
- middle relief
- middle reliever
- middle rib
- middle road
- middle-roader