6 letters · 6 points in Scrabble
adjective in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child
adjective arranged in a line
originFrom Old French lineal, from Latin līneālis, from līnea (“a line”) + -ālis (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, line + -al. Doublet of linear.
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