Noun

• S: (n) blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets) "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"
• S: (n) blood (temperament or disposition) "a person of hot blood"
• S: (n) rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue (a dissolute man in fashionable society)
• S: (n) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock (the descendants of one individual) "his entire lineage has been warriors"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• W: (adj) lineal [Related to: line] (in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child) "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
• W: (v) descend [Related to: descent] (come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example) "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
• W: (v) parent [Related to: parentage] (look after a child until it is an adult) "raise a family"; "bring up children"
• S: (n) blood (people viewed as members of a group) "we need more young blood in this organization"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

Verb

• S: (v) blood (smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill)