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family tree

Word definitions for family tree in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her family tree included a former prime minister and the governor of Tokyo. ▪ Perhaps you can give me some help on the family tree . ▪ Sir Walter Scott once said he was honoured to be a mere twig on the Swinton family tree . ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. successive generations of kin [syn: genealogy ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A family tree is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. Family tree may also refer to:

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The totality of someone's ancestors. 2 A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree.

Usage examples of family tree.

They were highly adaptable, they were omnivores as humankind's ancestors were, and in fact they resembled some of the primitive specimens on our own family tree.

Occasionally a probe from one family tree would enter a new star system which had been mapped by a probe from one of the other families: recognizing the beacon, the Von Neumann machine would switch to an alternative behaviour.

A lavish, fabulous occasion, attended by lavish and fabulous people-politicians, diplomats, ambassadors, even the odd scion of some royal family tree here and there, very odd-and all of them upstaged by their surroundings.

Lillian rolled off the details as they passed each cage-the dogs' names, and their place on the incestuous family tree.

No doubt Keighvin or Conal could identify this particular Unseleighe lord, and likely tell off at least part of his family tree, but it took one of the elven folk to do that.