"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

ancestor sustantivo

sustantivo + ancestor
Kolokacji: 6
ancestor of the people • ancestor of the family • ancestor of the Earls • warrior ancestor • slave ancestor • ...
ancestor + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 8
ancestor worship • ancestor veneration • ancestor spirit • ancestor figure • ancestor language • ...
ancestor + verbo
Kolokacji: 56
ancestor comes • ancestor lives • ancestor migrates • ancestor settles • ancestor arrives • ...
verbo + ancestor
Kolokacji: 14
share an ancestor • inherit from one's ancestors • represent ancestors • derive from an ancestor • trace one's ancestors • ...
adjetivo + ancestor
Kolokacji: 79
common ancestor • direct ancestor • early ancestor • human ancestor • distant ancestor • recent ancestor • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 24
(1) common, single, shared
Kolokacji: 3
1. common ancestor = wspólny przodek common ancestor
2. single ancestor = stanu wolnego przodek single ancestor
  • The island's 47 species of honeycreeper all evolved from a single ancestor.
  • Its universality is to be expected if all existing organisms have a single ancestor.
  • Modern studies of the land plants agree that all the pteridophytes share a single common ancestor.
  • What is the single common ancestor from which all living matter on our planet derives?
  • The original perception may have been that the group was entirely descended from a single ancestor.
  • But each test can trace only one lineage back to a single ancestor.
  • In 2008, new research suggested that people with blue eyes have a single common ancestor.
  • In particular, no specific African musical form can be identified as the single direct ancestor of the blues.
  • By the convention of our society a single black ancestor makes one black.
  • It is well accepted that all whales evolved from a single ancestor.
3. shared ancestor = wspólny przodek shared ancestor
(3) early, primitive, primal
Kolokacji: 3
(4) human, apelike, simian
Kolokacji: 3
(5) distant, remote
Kolokacji: 2
(7) immediate, ultimate
Kolokacji: 2
(8) dead, deceased, long-dead
Kolokacji: 3
(11) female, male, evolutionary
Kolokacji: 3
(13) American, Scottish, English
Kolokacji: 3
(15) Irish, Celtic
Kolokacji: 2
(18) great, heroic
Kolokacji: 2
(20) Indian, tribal
Kolokacji: 2
(21) likely, possible, hypothetical
Kolokacji: 3
(22) closest, apical
Kolokacji: 2
(23) terrestrial, aquatic
Kolokacji: 2
(24) mammalian, reptilian
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + ancestor
Kolokacji: 12
of one's ancestors • to one's ancestors • with one's ancestors • for one's ancestors • from an ancestor • ...

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