"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Both of these appear to have arisen only a few thousand years after the original common ancestor of CT.
- I've followed the records of my family in this country back as far as I can, but my original ancestor is on no official documents.
- I guess my original ancestors used to dodge the Indians that way.
- He is one of the original ancestors of the surnames Shen and Ye.
- And this latest patent is likely to be just one of many progeny to spring from that original 1981 ancestor.
- Selective breeding of plants and animals has led to varieties that differ dramatically from their original wild-type ancestors.
- The original ancestors were "minute brachydont animals".
- The original ancestors of the Gaels gave their name to modern Crimea.
- They come to be closer together or farther apart by virtue of the nearness or distance of the original ancestor.
- This sequence of alterations eventually produces a population which is physically, morphologically, and/or genetically distinct from the original ancestors.
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