All other birds, from loons and penguins to woodpeckers and sparrows, are placed together in the third main lineage, the Neoaves. |
The Blood Royal of this actual Grail lineage persists, via the female line, in the royal houses of Europe to this day. |
This gives you an idea of just how ancient this particular species was in terms of its ancestral lineage. |
A smaller unit is the lineage, a kin group of four or five generations descended from a male ancestor traced though the male line. |
Although 100 percent Dutch by lineage, Swimming World's male high school swimmer of the year, Matt Grevers, is a Yankee Doodle Dandy. |
We sense the tragedy of the poetic ballad and the noble lineage of its characters in the very opening measures of the musical rendering. |