wp-includes/taxonomy.php:1668Checks if a term is an ancestor of another term.
$term1int|object$term2int|object$taxonomystringboolfunction term_is_ancestor_of( $term1, $term2, $taxonomy ) { if ( ! isset( $term1->term_id ) ) { $term1 = get_term( $term1, $taxonomy ); } if ( ! isset( $term2->parent ) ) { $term2 = get_term( $term2, $taxonomy ); } if ( empty( $term1->term_id ) || empty( $term2->parent ) ) { return false; } if ( $term2->parent === $term1->term_id ) { return true; } return term_is_ancestor_of( $term1, get_term( $term2->parent, $taxonomy ), $taxonomy );}Introduced in 3.4.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-includes/taxonomy.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.