Synonyms and related words :
affiliation, animal kingdom, apparentation, birth, blood, bloodline, bracket, branch, breed, brood, caste, category, clan, class, common ancestry, consanguinity, deme, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side, division, estate, extraction, family, female line, filiation, folk, gens, grade, group, grouping, head, heading, house, kin, kind, label, level, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, matriclan, nation, order, patriclan, people, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, plant kingdom, position, predicament, race, rank, rating, rubric, section, seed, set, side, spear side, species, spindle side, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, succession, sword side, title, totem, tribe