Word Meaning

Meaning of extraction

- The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
- Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
- That which is extracted; extract; essence.

Crossword clue for extraction

- Ancestry
- Extrication
- Parentage