ancestor
祖先,祖宗,先祖,祖先的
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Definitions
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- : a person from whom one is descended; forebear; progenitor.
- : Biology. the actual or hypothetical form or stock from which an organism has developed or descended.
- : an object, idea, style, or occurrence serving as a prototype, forerunner, or inspiration to a later one: The balloon is an ancestor of the modern dirigible.
- : a person who serves as an influence or model for another; one from whom mental, artistic, spiritual, etc., descent is claimed: a philosophical ancestor.
- : Law. a person from whom an heir derives an inheritance.
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An analysis of molecular alterations in mitochondrial DNA samples indicated that two maternal lineages had split from a common ancestor between about 86,000 and 22,000 years ago.
Eventually alien biologists in these places might concern themselves with a tree of life incorporating multiple planetary incubators, and their genome-mapping companies would tell you who your planetary ancestors were.
None of the matings in any of the generations are between individuals with a common ancestor.
While BigDog is the ancestor of later four-legged robots, like Spot, Petman preceded the two-legged Atlas robot.
Proof that the handedness of particles really can mutate microbes would strengthen their case that cosmic rays shoved our ancestors off the evolutionary starting block, but it still wouldn’t fully explain the uniform chirality of life on Earth.
There is also a mysterious Moomin ancestor who lives permanently in the stove.
Natives from all over the New World could host a great celebration to honor their oldest ancestor.
It is possible to name an ancestor to this obsessive-compulsive noir: David Lynch.
Soon after he was seen stumping for the Assad regime in his ancestor's conflagrated homeland.
Schiele is, if nothing else, an ancestor of the best in long-legged fashion illustration.
He married the widow of —— Bradley, and was the ancestor of the baronets of Caversham, extinct in 1774.