Among them, they represented several lineages more than a century old.

He thought that here and there in the slaves he could detect traces of an old lineage.

Some of the trees in Scotland have very old lineages, especially on remote islands.

"It's quite an old lineage, back to the sixteen hundreds."

That makes sulfate-eating bacteria among the oldest lineages of life on the planet.

Sometimes called a "living fossil", it is the only extant representative of the family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old.

Indian wolves are likely of a much older lineage than northern wolves.

As the old lineages endure, new species also evolve.

His family was relatively poor, not coming from one of the old great lineages of Chinese society.

Historically, or in a more general context, the term may refer to a family of old lineage and distinction.