How to get parent to taxonomy term

This is how you can get the parent term to a taxonomy term.

<?php

$tid = 4;
parent = taxonomy_get_parents($tid);


echo "<pre>";
print_r($parent);
echo "</pre>";


//Will print something like this
/*
Array
(
    [3] => stdClass Object
        (
            [tid] => 3
            [vid] => 1
            [name] => My parent term name
            [description] =>
            [weight] => 0
        )

)
*/

?>
Knowledge keywords: 
taxonomy