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All family tree synonyms

fam·i·ly tree
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noun family tree

  • ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
  • descent — A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
  • genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
  • heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
  • line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
  • lineage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
  • pedigree — an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.
  • tree — Sir Herbert Beerbohm [beer-bohm] /ˈbɪər boʊm/ (Show IPA), (Herbert Beerbohm) 1853–1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm.
  • bloodline — A person's bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors.
  • genealogical tree — family tree.
  • stemma — ocellus (def 1).
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