Main entry: extraction, origin, descent
Definition: properties attributable to your ancestry
Usage: he comes from good origins
Main entry: origin
Definition: the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
Main entry: origin, origination, inception
Definition: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
Main entry: pedigree, parentage, origin, blood, blood line, bloodline, ancestry, line, line of descent, lineage, descent, stemma, stock
Definition: the descendants of one individual
Usage: his entire lineage has been warriors
Main entry: root, rootage, source, beginning, origin
Definition: the place where something begins, where it springs into being
Usage: the Italian beginning of the Renaissance; Jupiter was the origin of the radiation; Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River; communism's Russian root
Main entry: origin
Definition: the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
Usage: the rumor had its origin in idle gossip; vegetable origins; mineral origin; origin in sensation