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noun

One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, seed, stock. See kin, precede/follow.

The animal's sire and dam. In animal circles the dam is usually evident, the sire is often a subject of conjecture.

• p. determination — see parentage testing (below).
• p. exclusion testing — see parentage testing (below).
• p. testing — a test originally based on red cell antigens but increasingly on restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), also called DNA fingerprinting. The offspring can have only those blood group antigens possessed by one or both of its parents. Identification of the offspring's antigens makes it possible to exclude some possible sires because they carry antigens not possessed by the subject animal. Similarly, the inheritance of a particular RFLP is directly linked to that found in each parent. Called also parentage determination, parentage exclusion testing.

For a list of words related to parentage, see:

• Kinship and Ancestry - parentage: descent from parents or ancestors; lineage
• Upbringing and Development - parentage: state of being a parent

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See words rhyming with "parentage."

Dansk (Danish)
n. - herkomst, forældreværdighed

Nederlands (Dutch)
ouderschap, afkomst

Français (French)
n. - ascendance, origine

Deutsch (German)
n. - Ursprung, Herkunft

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καταγωγή (κν. φύτρα), γένος, σόι

Italiano (Italian)
paternità, estrazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - ascendência (f), paternidade (f)

Русский (Russian)
отцовство/ материнство, происхождение

Español (Spanish)
n. - maternidad, paternidad, familia, linaje

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - härkomst, börd, föräldraskap

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
亲子关系, 血统, 出身

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 親子關係, 血統, 出身

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 부모와 자식의 관계, 태생, 혈통

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 生まれ, 家柄, 親であること

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تولد, تأصل, أبوة, أمومه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מוצא, הורות, שורש‬

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