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n. The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.

n. Something obtained by extracting; an extract.

n. Origin; lineage: of Spanish extraction.

n. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.

n. A person's origin or ancestry.

n. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.

n. An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.

n. A removal of a tooth from its socket.

n. The act of extracting, or drawing out.

n. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

n. That which is extracted; extract; essence.

n. The act of extracting.

n. The operation of drawing anything from a substance, as an essence, tincture, or the like.

n. The act of taking out or copying a part, as a passage from a book.

n. In arithmetic and algebra, the rule or operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. See root.

n. That which is extracted; extract; essence.

n. Descent; lineage; birth; derivation of persons from a stock or family.

n. The production of segregated descendants by Mendelian hybrids.

n. the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

n. the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

n. properties attributable to your ancestry

"Eastern Quebec, being largely Norman in extraction, is also the home of ballads; while we fail to detect more than a small number in the Montreal districts, where the settlers were more predominantly from the Loire River to the south."

removal    remotion   

descent   

lineage    descent    birth    extract    essence   

abstraction    action    attraction    contraction    diffraction    dissatisfaction    distraction    exaction    faction    fraction   

ancestry    crystallization    parentage    fractionation    recovery    combustion    descent    conversion    storage    production