family tree

noun

1
2
: a genealogical diagram

Examples of family tree in a Sentence

A framed family tree hung on the wall. his family tree includes writers, musical composers, and other notables in the arts
Recent Examples on the Web Genealogists can find people from the same family tree as the unidentified suspect. Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024 How investigative genetic genealogy works Genetic genealogy is a practice that blends DNA analysis in the lab with genealogical research, such as tracing a person’s family tree. Eric Levenson, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024 The e-mail goes through several generations of Hoover’s family tree, finding no ties to any Indigenous community. Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024 Either way, the enduring mystery of how closely humans and sea lamprey fit on the vertebrate family tree will continue. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024 But, that said, avian extinction risks are not randomly or evenly distributed across the entire family tree: some groups of birds are more likely to go extinct than others. Grrlscientist, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 By comparing all these features of different languages, linguists are able to map how languages descended from one another, and to place them in family trees that show their relationships. Kurt Kleiner, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024 Such numbers capture the magnitude of Gaza’s loss like little else: family trees dismembered, whole branches of them obliterated. Iyad Abuheweila, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023 His profile includes his overall draft rankings, which range from No. 3 to 13, along with his family tree and his stats going back to his U16 year in 2020-21. Carol Schram, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1763, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of family tree was in 1763

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“Family tree.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/family%20tree. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

family tree

noun
1
2
: a diagram showing family relationships

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