Collocations withancestor
These are words often used in combination withancestor.
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ancestor worship
I am not bowled over by ancestor worship.
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Hansard archive
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common ancestor
And is there one common ancestor for sauceboat, saucebox, saucepan, and saucy?
From theCambridge English Corpus
deceased ancestor
Names given to a young person after going through a rite of passage would most likely be taken from a deceased ancestor of the family.
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direct ancestor
This stack is necessary in order to be able to get the direct ancestor of the current predicate.
From theCambridge English Corpus
distant ancestor
More generally, x and its successor x have a more distant ancestor in common.
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early ancestor
He also invented the "transparent", an early ancestor of the magic lantern and motion picture, for viewing moving bands of landscape paintings.
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Wikipedia
human ancestor
The original placement of this species as a human ancestor but not a chimpanzee ancestor would complicate the picture of human phylogeny.
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immediate ancestor
Fissioning standardly gives rise to a pair of new entities that are one half the size of their immediate ancestor.
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male ancestor
Members of a "biradari" are supposedly descended from a common male ancestor.
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Wikipedia
wild ancestor
Many times, domesticated species live in or near areas which also still hold naturally evolved, region-specific wild ancestor species and subspecies.
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Wikipedia
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