straight descent
noun
Roget 167:
posterity,
progeny,
breed,
issue,
offspring,
brood,
litter,
seed,
farrow,
spawn,
spat;
family,
grandchildren,
heirs;
great-grandchild.
child,
son,
daughter;
butcha†;
bantling,
scion;
acrospire†,
plumule†,
shoot,
sprout,
olive-branch,
sprit†,
branch;
off-shoot,
off-set;
ramification;
descendant;
heir,
heiress;
heir-apparent,
heir-presumptive;
chip off the old block;
heredity;
rising generation.
straight descent,
sonship†,
line,
lineage,
filiation†,
primogeniture.
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