FAMILY TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family tree mean? 

• FAMILY TREE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY TREE has 1 sense:

1. successive generations of kin

  Familiarity information: FAMILY TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Successive generations of kin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

family tree; genealogy

Hypernyms ("family tree" is a kind of...):

clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe (group of people related by blood or marriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "family tree"):

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)

 Context examples 

Draw a family tree and add the health information.

(Family History, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Using the data, they created a phylogenetic tree – a type of family tree of the different mutations in the tumours.

(The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas, University of Cambridge)

The excavation process spanned several years, and included researchers suspended by ropes and large-scale mechanical excavators to recover one of the more complete specimens from this part of the sauropod dinosaur family tree.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

By tagging bone marrow cells of mice with a genetic label, or barcode, researchers were able to track and describe the family tree of individual blood cells as they form in their natural environment.

(Cellular barcoding helps scientists understand the behavior of stem cells, National Institutes of Health)