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.
Sri Lanka was the first Asian country known to have a female ruler: Anula of Anuradhapura (r. 47â42 BCE). Sri Lankan monarchs undertook some remarkable construction projects such as Sigiriya, the so-called Fortress in the Sky, built during the reign of Kashyapa I of Anuradhapura, who ruled between 477 and 495.