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Family tree

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  1. 1
    A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
  2. 2
    successive generations of kin wordnet
  3. 3
    The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring. collective

    "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."

  4. 4
    A model or diagram showing the relationships and evolution of specified languages over time.
  5. 5
    A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.
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  1. 6
    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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