Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A genealogical diagram of a family's ancestry.
- noun The ancestors and descendants of a family considered as a group.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
totality of someone'sancestors . - noun A
diagrammatic representation of apedigree .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun successive generations of kin
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Examples
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For some mutiple lines of evidence, I’ll pass you a very short way up the family tree.
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For some mutiple lines of evidence, I’ll pass you a very short way up the family tree.
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