"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
(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
1. closest ancestor = najbliższy przodek closest ancestor
  • 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.
2. apical ancestor = wierzchołkowy przodek apical ancestor
(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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