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Meanings of ancestor in inglés
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Person from whom another person is descended.
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Examples for "ancestors"
Examples for "ancestors"
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Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors made civilization possible by creating agriculture.
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About two million years ago, our hominin ancestors began to change again.
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While her ancestors were concerned with commerce, however, her business is e-commerce.
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The sequence differences, however, indicate that they are derived from different ancestors.
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Of course, Ramsey's ancestors had been outside, freezing in the slaves' quarters.
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The new enthusiasts see West as the ancestress of strong modern women.
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And then the stolidly common-sense Puritan ancestress in her made her laugh.
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So Mrs. Clifford had an ancestress who was a Roumanian, had she?
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Nella-Rose, now that her father considered, was dangerously like her picturesque ancestress!
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And in Nan the soul of her French ancestress lived anew.
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But again the blood of his forebear was rousing strange tremblings within him.
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Are you aware, sir, that these Crozers killed your forebear at the kirk-door?'
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But he is not generally intrusive, content to render homage to his illustrious forebear.
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Henry Moore shrewdly avoided all mention of his artistic forebear.
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His grandson Jeremy Matthews spoke at the unveiling, paying tribute to his forebear's bravery.
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Their noble ancestresses of the Renaissance understood and did these things better-soHelen reflected.
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She was human, after all, and had thousands of plebeian and primitive ancestors and ancestresses.
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She was what her ancestresses had been for generations.
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That poem was written by a very clever man who married one of my ancestresses.
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Your ancestresses came from citadels and castles; no Schorlin ever yet brought his bride from a tradesman's house.
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 inglés
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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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