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Meanings of ancestor in English
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Person from whom another person is descended.
Related terms
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 English
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Clearly, the common genes suggest that the viruses share a common ancestor.
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The island was also home to a dwarf elephant ancestor, for example.
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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.
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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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Ancestor through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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Ireland
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