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.
Some groups are represented only by species very recently introduced by humans. Missing on the island are the many species of large mammals  antelopes, elephants, zebras, camels, giraffes, hyenas, lions and cheetahs  that roam continental Africa today. The only large African mammal that made it to Madagascar prior to the arrival of humans several thousand years ago was the hippopotamus.