ăn'sĕs'trē
Plural form of progenitor
By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.
The social quality of your class in society.
(Countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
The spilling of blood; murder
The fact or process of being derived or developing from a source:
Origin; lineage:
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The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.
(Informal) Glib or insincere talk, usually intended to deceive or impress:
Origin is the start, center or beginning of something or the place where a person comes from.
A line of ancestors; a lineage.
Seeds considered as a group:
Any of a number of plants of the crucifer family, as evening stock (Mathiola bicornis), or Virginian stock (Malcomia maritima)
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Plural form of antecedent
In generative linguistics, the generation of a linguistic structure through an ordered or partially ordered series of operations on other structures, such as the creation of a surface structure from a deep structure, or of a complex word from its morphological components.
family: ancestors
One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation
Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation
(Biology) A usually geographically isolated population of organisms that differs from other populations of the same species in certain heritable traits:
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The branch thus formed.
the descendants of one individual
In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
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