"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Previously, the kiwi, the Australian emu, and cassowary were thought to be the closest ancestors.
- The closest ancestor we can find for it is something called Carcharodon megalodon, a fish that existed maybe thirty or forty thousand years ago.
- He is our closest common ancestor.
- This 1929 discovery suggested that man's closest ancestor might have lived in Asia as well as Africa.
- The degree of two cousins' relationship is determined by the number of generations to their closest common ancestor.
- Bourre's closest ancestor is an obsolete 19th century card game, rams, played in France.
- This is evident in looking at its closest ancestor Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- If you are talking about cousins, your closest common ancestor is your grandparents.
- Yet its closest ancestor wasn't a printer but a shredder: you just shove stacks of paper, 50 pages at a time, into the top slot.
- The closest ancestor, in form, of the armoire desk, is the Moore desk.
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