genealogy vs line of descent

genealogy and line of descent both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
genealogy	Yes	No	No	No
line of descent	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

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

genealogy (noun)	line of descent (noun)
the study or investigation of ancestry and family history	the hereditary derivation of an individual
successive generations of kin	the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

genealogy vs line of descent

genealogy and line of descent both are nouns.

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