phratry

Noun phratry has 1 sense

• phratry(n = noun.group) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
has particulars: people, homefolk, house, dynasty, gens, name
is a kind of ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock