PARENT NODE

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A parent node (or ancestor node, or superior) A of a node B in a tree data structure is a node of which B is a child node. The parent may itself be a child of another node. A node can have no more than one parent, but it can have multiple children.

Every node of a tree induces a subtree.

See also

• root node
• hierarchy

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