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genealogy

/jee-nee-ol-uh-jee, -al-, jen-ee-/US // ˌdʒi niˈɒl ə dʒi, -ˈæl-, ˌdʒɛn i- //UK // (ˌdʒiːnɪˈælədʒɪ) //

族谱,谱系,家谱,谱牒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ge·ne·al·o·gies.

    • : a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
    • : the study of family ancestries and histories.
    • : descent from an original form or progenitor; lineage; ancestry.
    • : Biology. a group of individuals or species having a common ancestry: The various species of Darwin's finches form a closely knit genealogy.

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Examples

  • Maryland will also become one of the first states in the country to limit law enforcement’s use of consumer genealogy websites.

  • Your genealogy results from consumer kits, for example, could be on point or off base, depending on your race and the genetic background of their reference samples.

  • Cornish — who is also interested in genealogy — was hoping to do some research about her great-uncle on the other side of her family, when she noticed she had several messages on Ancestry, including one from Knox.

  • Our movements spring from a genealogy of struggle that includes fights for the abolition of enslavement, anti-lynching campaigns, fights for sovereignty, civil rights, and workers’ rights.

  • The most flamboyant of America's weenies, the Sonoran hot dog, has a murky genealogy.

  • Because the doctors do know who the person is; the doctors are conducting the genealogy.

  • Well, according to the genealogy experts at, uh, myvouchercodes.co.uk who commissioned the pictures, it is.

  • It was a rupture in our genealogy that came to serve as a metaphor for larger losses in black history.

  • Sophie Savides, 17Plays piano, pop genealogy class, “I Heart Music.”

  • William Berry, an English author, died at Bristol, aged 77; author of various works on genealogy and heraldry.

  • That was Pfalz-Neuburg's logic: none of the best, I think, in forensic genealogy.

  • This again led Moslim critics to the study of genealogy and geography.

  • Are you not a man whose genealogy, if verified, proves that you descend from Bahila?

  • For it is said that he had a genealogy, but that it was not in the priestly family.