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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A genealogical diagram of a family's ancestry.
  2. n. The ancestors and descendants of a family considered as a group.

Wiktionary

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. successive generations of kin

Examples

  • “On Christmas morning, after we’d opened our gifts around the family tree in the White House, I was handed a reply to my message to Brezhnev, a terse note sent via the Molink claiming it was the United States, not his country, that was interfering in Polish affairs.”

    Simon & Schuster: An American Life

  • “Yet he was not an extravagant-minded man in this, and in constructing his family tree on the new basis was duly reasonable in framing his intermarriages and aristocratic links, never inserting a single title above a rank of strict moderation.”

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  • “We awakened to discover our family tree was up in the Yellow Oval Room, a glorious 14-foot tree.”

    Simon & Schuster: Barbara Bush

  • “The Tree of Jesse is a decorative device illustrating the geneology of Christ; it is the family tree of Christianity.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art

  • “I received much information about the van Zestien family tree from both the brothers.”

    Death of a Delft Blue

  • “The Pelletiers were in fact the fifth-largest family in all of Quebec, and the Cap-Chat arm of the family tree had produced mostly farmers.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE SECOND MARK

  • “There's a bunch of other nutwads in the family tree who deserve mentioning, I mean, we haven't even touched on the in-laws yet, and that's a whole other family tree of monkeys.”

    Undead and Unworthy

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