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Definitions for family tree
fam·i·ly tree

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. genealogy, family treenoun

    successive generations of kin

Wiktionary

  1. family treenoun

    The totality of someone's ancestors.

  2. family treenoun

    A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree.

Wikipedia

  1. Family tree

    A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms.

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  1. family tree

    A family tree is a diagram or chart that visually represents the relationships and lineage within a family, tracing ancestry and descendants over multiple generations. It depicts familial connections, displaying how each member is related to the others, often dating back many generations. The tree may include details such as dates of birth and death, marriage information, and other significant family events.

Wikidata

  1. Family tree

    A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine and social work are known as genograms.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of family tree in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of family tree in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of family tree in a Sentence

  1. Sterling Nesbitt:

    There's such a huge gap in our understanding around the time when the common ancestor of birds and crocodilians was alive — there isn't a lot out there in the fossil record from that part of the reptile family tree.

  2. Anthony Wilder Wohns:

    Simply put, what we did was we created the largest human family tree ever, we have a single genealogy that traces the ancestry of all of humanity, and shows how we're all related to each other today.

  3. Martin Kuhlwilm:

    Its an extinct branch of the Pan family tree.

  4. Anthony Shelton:

    We all live in the age of genetics, whether it be looking at your family tree or genetically engineering plants, we just know so much more about the genes in insects that we can now utilize this knowledge to control the pest populations in a much more environmentally friendly way and a much more sustainable way.

  5. Courtesy Joseph Wood Wood:

    This is a huge family tree, oh my gosh, to go from zero, with not having a single person connected to Courtesy Joseph Wood Wood, to looking at Courtesy Joseph Wood Wood family tree going all the way back to like 1790, that's just a huge, huge family.


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