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family tree

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  • Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧ly tree

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family tree (plural family trees)

  1. (genealogy) A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
  2. (collective) The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring.
    • 1997, Doug Adams, The Prostitute in the Family Tree: Discovering Humor and Irony in the Bible, →ISBN, page 3:
      Heredity and environment are not the absolute arbiters of what will be, as Jesus' genealogy details in the first chapter of Matthew's Gospel. As Gardner Taylor, an African-American preacher in Brooklyn, noted, Rahab the prostitute is in the family tree of Jesus Christ.
    • 1998, “Intergalactic”, performed by Beastie Boys:
      We're from the family tree of old school hip-hop / Kick off your shoes and relax your socks
    • 2010, Amelie von Zumbusch, Barack Obama's Family Tree: Roots of Achievement, →ISBN, page 22:
      As the years have passed, Barack Obama's family tree has grown.
    • 2011, Suzannah Knight, Black Magic, →ISBN, page 18:
      It's never been discussed whether or not there is mental illness in my family tree but I know a great aunt committed suicide years before using paracetamol.
    • 2025 October 27, Angelique Chrisafis, “Ten people go on trial in Paris for online harassment of Brigitte Macron”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      Brigitte Macron has not spoken publicly on the false gender claims since 2022, when she told French radio, RTL, the allegations were an “impossible” attack on her parents’ family tree.
  3. (linguistics) A model or diagram showing the relationships and evolution of specified languages over time.
  4. (horticulture) A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.
  5. (computing, computing theory) A data structure that organizes resources or machines in a distributed system, consisting of nodes connected by edges, in which each node may also contain a subnode.

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