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Meaning of family tree | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
  2. The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring.
    collective
  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.

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Examples

“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.”
“We're from the family tree of old school hip-hop / Kick off your shoes and relax your socks”
“As the years have passed, Barack Obama's family tree has grown.”
“It's never been discussed whether or not there is mental illness in my family tree but I know a great aunt committed suicide years before using paracetamol.”
“Brigitte Macron has not spoken publicly on the false gender claims since 2022, when she told French radio, RTL, the allegations were an “impossible” attack on her parents’ family tree.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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