multilineage

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ lineage

Noun

multilineage (countable and uncountable, plural multilineages)

1. (usually noun adjunct) Multiple lineages

   a multilineage progenitor

   • 2002, Xin Liu, The Otherness of Self‎^[1], →ISBN, page 120:

     This is a crucial point: the road to the present is not an evolution of unilinear descent; rather, it is a complex formation of multilineages, each including several segments and a number of extended families, of the same origin but with very different outlooks.