Antonym: descendant. Similar words: restore, investor, story, pastor, history, storage, historic, rest on. Meaning: ['ænsestə] n. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent).
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(121) In other words, a long-ago ancestor species that spent its time in the trees moved to the ground and began walking upright.
(122) He did not know from which part of Africa ancestor had come.
(123) Because of the similar morphological traits between bonobos and humans, some anthropologists consider the bonobo to be the best living prototype for the common ancestor of humans.
(124) It seems to have a predilection for young adults, as did its notorious ancestor, the 1918 Spanish influenza.
(125) But the fact that an ancestor of an important modern pollinator existed back then could help scientists explain the rapid expansion of floral diversity in the early to mid-Cretaceous.
(126) Yet, proto-Indo - European is believed to be the ancestor of most European languages.
(127) The way to reproduce an outbred ancestor is to mate two individuals that mimic the appearance and pedigree of the ancestor's parents.
(128) The unveiling of Ardipithecus ramidus ("Ardi") in the fall of 2009 flooded the paleoanthropological world with new data about this 4.4-million-year-old early ancestor.
(129) Like ancestor in XPath, descendant has a descendant-or-self for those special cases where the selected node might match what you're looking for (see Figure 3).
(130) China rose:a Chinese rose (Rosa chinensis) having mostly red, pink, or white flowers. It is an ancestor of many cultivated hybrid roses.
(131) These compartmentalised cells are called 'eukaryotic', and they all share a common ancestor that arose just once in four billion years of evolution.
(132) Darwin's grandfather Erasmus believed life evolved from a single ancestor.
(133) As soon as the Chinese before dining, lights before the ancestor spirit tablet burns a joss stick, burns several paper moneys , for the steaming hot food, then dines.
(134) In this novel, Morrison reproduces and rewrites the myth of flying Africans through depicting the flights of Black ancestor Solomon and his great grandson, Milkman.
(135) In the developing mammalian brain, for example, neurons migrate up into the cranium, using much the same kind of amoeboid movement that our deep ancestor employed to capture bacteria.
(136) For two thousand years the people of Shaanxi Longxian have been taking up the tradition to celebrate the Earth God and the Fire Ancestor in the Shehuo Carnival by parading in opera disguise.
(137) Moreover, each red ant has the characteristics that pertain to each of its ancestor categories. For example, red ants have six legs, which is one of the defining characteristics of the class Insecta.
(138) Genealogical tables are records in old days of the descent of a family from an ancestor generation by generation. They are important materials for the study of dynastical history and local history.
(139) Therefore the pope suggested the ancestor place church member committee prepares the world youth date activity.
(140) Xinjiang wild apple(Malus sieversii)is very similar to cultural apple species in shape and quality. It is the direct family ancestor of the cultural apples.
(141) Chinese rose (Rosa chinensis) having mostly red, pink,[www.Sentencedict.com] or white flowers. It is an ancestor of many cultivated hybrid roses.
(142) Sibship between 29 sugarcane cultivars and 12 ancestor species was analysed with RAPD .
(143) The vibrant reds, whites, and yellows—meant to mimic the colors of the bird of paradise, revered as a tribal ancestor—are achieved with a mix of ocher and mud.
(144) The formulation of witch culture in Yi district, is based on the folk primitive faith of Yi, an organic whole of worshipping the ancestor, nature, totemism and efficacious things.
(145) Heis also an ancestor of William Howard Taft, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks and the father and son Governors of Vermont Erastus Fairbanksand Horace Fairbanks.
(146) The Spanish team has provisionally assigned the newfound fossil to Homo antecessor ('pioneer man'), a species that they suggest could be the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens .
(147) US University of Chicago postgraduate candidate Laura · Polo said that "the very possible all dinosaur are evolve from the carnivora dinosaur ancestor come."
(148) We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.
(149) The great-great jelly bean ancestor first appeared in the 1800s, but jelly candies of one kind or another have been around for thousands of years.
(150) Further research, carried out by the German brothers Grimm and others, later revealed that most European languages and some Indian ones have a common ancestor, now known as Indo-European.
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