Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word lineage. Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock(noun) the descendants of one individual.
A little known fact is that Sri Lanka is home to 125 Mammalian species. Much has been written about elephants, leopards and even on primates individually, but after W.W.A. Philipsâ review of Sri Lankaâs mammals in the 1930s, there was no comprehensive review undertaken.
Africans in Sri Lanka. African Sri Lankans, mainly the Sri Lanka Kaffirs, are a very small Ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are descendants of slaves that were brought into the island by Portuguese colonists in the 17th century. There are currently around 1000 African Sri Lankans.