family tree vs line of descent

family tree and line of descent both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
family tree	Yes	No	No	No
line of descent	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, line of descent is a hyponym of family tree; that is, line of descent is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than family tree:

family tree: successive generations of kin
line of descent: the hereditary derivation of an individual

Other hyponyms of family tree include ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock.

family tree (noun)	line of descent (noun)
successive generations of kin	the hereditary derivation of an individual
	the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

family tree vs line of descent

family tree and line of descent both are nouns.

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