FAMILY TREE Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

family tree

noun

Definition of family tree

as in ancestry

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended his family tree includes writers, musical composers, and other notables in the arts

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Recent Examples of family tree Kurin is also senior author of a paper describing the methods that connected the former US president to Hemings’ descendants, which involved delving deep into the genetics of the Jefferson and Hemings family trees. — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026 Of course, one point made in the song is that nearly every American has immigrants in the family tree, however much some nationalists may like to imagine a United States that began with certain demographics in place. — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026 Using a suspect’s DNA recovered from the rape kits, a family tree can be developed to help identify a suspect like Santiago, who was arrested in 2023. — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026 These doubters also disparage as unreliable or wishful thinking the oral histories passed down by Hemings’s descendants who have placed Jefferson in their family tree. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for family tree

Recent Examples of Synonyms for family tree

Noun

Instead, the report estimated the girls had 50% Ukrainian ancestry.

— Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
It is often erroneously compared to Halloween, though the two holidays may share ancestry in Catholicism’s All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day.

— Rocio Muñoz Ledo, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of ancestry

Noun

Reconciling competing visions of reality depends on continuously normalizing disparate vendor inputs into a unified GTM data model, scoring source reliability, assessing recency and maintaining complete lineage tracking.

— Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
As ecologist Doug Tallamy has chronicled, over 90% of herbivorous insects specialize on one or a few native plant lineages.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of lineage

Noun

Testing could include genetic genealogy, tracing relatives through DNA connections.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
To anyone accustomed to the usual genealogies of either Judd or late-twentieth-century architecture, his choice of Alexander might have been startling.

— Julian Rose, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of genealogy

Noun

Scientists inserted genes associated with Alzheimer’s into mouse genomes, breeding animals that had high levels of amyloid in their brains; the mice then began to struggle with spatial navigation.

— Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Deer breeding behavior, known as the rut, aligns with the changing length of daylight.

— Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of breeding

Noun

Riggle, meanwhile, has played a character like this (albeit not one with Saint Nick’s pedigree) a few dozen times already, so his comic contributions are reliable if not terribly fresh.

— Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026
Casey is valuable not for her (mixed) pedigree, we’re meant to understand, but because Harley loved her.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of pedigree

Noun

After completing its descent sequence, the booster touched down on the platform.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
First flight of the heavier CZ-10 with an uncrewed Lanyue lander performing a lunar descent and ascent test, exercising the lander’s propulsion and guidance.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2026