immediate ancestor

collocation in English

meaningsofimmediateandancestor

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immediate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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ancestor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæn.ses.tər/us
/ˈæn.ses.tɚ/
a person related to you who lived a long ...
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(Definition ofimmediateandancestorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Fissioning standardly gives rise to a pair of new entities that are one half the size of theirimmediateancestor.
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By the end of the 19th century, theimmediateancestorof modern fencing had developed with its familiar pedagogy and collection of techniques and theory.
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The other prehistoric equid is the modern horsesimmediateancestor.
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For example, yourimmediateancestorin the tree only puts half of his new recruits in your downline, on average.
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This possible identification of theimmediateancestorof the living taxon may also rely on stratigraphic information to establish the age of the specimens.
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I think that things still unsolved, not only in my time, but in the time of our immediate ancestors, are perfectly scandalous.
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The secondary school child of to-day is not simply his immediate ancestors brought up to date.
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One cannot tell what sort of progeny a bull will have, merely from seeing his immediate ancestors.
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Opisthobranchs have undergone detorsion, an evolutionary reversal of the half revolution torsion of their immediate ancestors.
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They were most closely related to the extinct chalicotheres, which they greatly resemble, and may have been their immediate ancestors.
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One study suggested that the earliest birds and their immediate ancestors did not climb trees.
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Many horses were named by the region where they or their immediate ancestors were foaled.
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A sept or clan was a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory.
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Such notches are found in labyrinthodonts and some of their immediate ancestors, but not in their reptilian descendants.
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Vertebrate paleontology concentrates on fossils of vertebrates, from the earliest fish to the immediate ancestors of modern mammals.
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Some recent research undermines the trees down hypothesis by suggesting that the earliest birds and their immediate ancestors did not climb trees.
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Then they visit the tombs of their immediate ancestors to trim plants and clean the area around the tomb, and offer food, drink, and crops to their ancestors.
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