Organ of a higher plant that anchors the rest of the plant in the ground, absorbs water and mineral salts from the soil, and does not bear leaves or buds.
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
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Examples for "ancestor"
Examples for "ancestor"
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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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Thus the Centre Party is in the ascendant in the Rhenish Provinces.
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For centuries the building forces in western civilization were in the ascendant.
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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.
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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.
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There is here in the subject no antecedent feeling tending to morality.
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Frequently our brains, our antecedent plans, have no part in the decision.
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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.
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Outside of his official duties his passion for work again gained the ascendent.
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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.
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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.
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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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Peng's recent return is seen at the root of the new fighting.
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In Luther, it was the root; in Erasmus, it was the flower.
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Many believe greater transparency and accountability are needed to root out corruption.
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Be very particular in getting the root in and caring for it.
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The leadership said they changed their minds following pressure from grass-root supporters.
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Europe deals only with the symptoms of migration, not its root causes.
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Usually, they're lurking under the water, at the root of the problem.
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Could work dissatisfaction be at the root of my problem with Ryan?
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Lyons believes high construction costs are at the root of the problem.
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Little is known about the second bug used to gain root access.
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Ineffective governments with weak leadership are at the root of the problem.
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