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Meanings of ancestor in anglès
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Person from whom another person is descended.
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Sinònims
Examples for "root"
Examples for "root"
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Onetti said that concept has been slower to take root in Europe.
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From the 18th century however, a national Romantic movement had taken root.
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New polices ordered by Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis have taken root.
4
Maybe that was the root of their current problems: too much thinking.
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Result: S. miltiorrhiza root of high harvest area accumulated Cu and Zn.
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Thus the Centre Party is in the ascendant in the Rhenish Provinces.
2
For centuries the building forces in western civilization were in the ascendant.
3
But the star of the junior dayroom was not in the ascendant.
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China, on the other hand, was described as economically and militarily ascendant.
5
The military party was in the ascendant, and did as it chose.
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Sometimes it is clearer to introduce the antecedent of the pronoun instead.
2
There is here in the subject no antecedent feeling tending to morality.
3
Frequently our brains, our antecedent plans, have no part in the decision.
4
Heretics have as direct a relation to antecedent conditions as the orthodox.
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The antecedent grace of God touches man from within or from without.
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The chief of the ascendent political party was the real ruler.
2
Outside of his official duties his passion for work again gained the ascendent.
3
But at this Abe's prudence deserted him, and righteous wrath rose to the ascendent.
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But the people were for the moment in the ascendent, and Bacon should not be sacrificed.
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Hence his oft varying moods, as the one or the other part of him became ascendent.
Person from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any number of generations.
Usage of ancestor in anglès
1
Clearly, the common genes suggest that the viruses share a common ancestor.
2
The island was also home to a dwarf elephant ancestor, for example.
3
However, in peach ancestor, these syntenic regions were quickly lost or deleted.
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Finally forced to honor his ancestor two thousand years after the fact.
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Yes, the portrait of my ancestor that I brought back from France.
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Was the ultraviolence inherent to chimpanzee culture present in our common ancestor?
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The intermediate lowland type was probably the ancestor of the modern animal.
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My clan stood with your ancestor against Plenimar in the Great War.
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Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
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If the ancestor survives, then the new species has arisen by branching.
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The besetting propensity of my ancestor soon began to appear in Leaplow.
12
An ancestor of the same name was among the country's independence heroes.
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Haplotype analyses indicated that each recurrent deletion had a single common ancestor.
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Monkeys and us have a common ancestor and you can prove it.
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These three genes and HLA-Bw58 are postulated to share a common ancestor.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest The hypothetical placental mammal ancestor, a small, insect-eating animal.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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Ireland
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