Word Meaning

extraction definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
n. That which is extracted; extract; essence.

Crossword clues for extraction

- Ancestry
- Extrication
- Parentage