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family trees

family trees is the plural of family tree.

Meaning of family tree

Noun

family tree (plural family trees)

  1. (genealogy) A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
  2. (collective) The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring.
    • Heredity and environment are not the absolute arbiters of what will be, as Jesus' genealogy details in the first chapter of Matthew's Gospel. As Gardner Taylor, an African-American preacher in Brooklyn, noted, Rahab the prostitute is in the family tree of Jesus Christ.1997, Doug Adams, The Prostitute in the Family Tree: Discovering Humor and Irony in the Bible, →ISBN, page 3
  3. A model or diagram showing the relationships and evolution of specified languages over time.
  4. A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.
  5. A data structure that organizes resources or machines in a distributed system, consisting of nodes connected by edges, in which each node may also contain a subnode.

Questions about family trees

What is family trees the plural of?
Family trees is the plural of family tree.

Words near family trees in the dictionary

  1. family roofs
  2. family room
  3. family rooms
  4. family size
  5. family tree
  6. family trees
  7. family unit
  8. family units
  9. family valuer
  10. family valuers
  11. family values

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Adapted from Wiktionary: family trees (page history and authors); family tree (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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