Ancestry

Word ANCESTRY
Character 8
Hyphenation an ces try
Pronunciations /ˈæn.sɛs.tɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Ancestry"

What do we mean by ancestry?

Ancestral descent or lineage. noun

Ancestors considered as a group. noun

A series or line of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose a preceding line of natural descent. noun

Hence Descent from a line of honorable ancestors; high birth. noun

In biology, the series of ancestors or ancestral types through which an organized being may have come to be what it is in the process of evolution. noun

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. noun

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. noun

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. noun

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. noun

Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline noun

The descendants of one individual noun

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Ancestry

The word "ancestry" in example sentences

With clades the ancestry is assumed depending on shared characteristic traits. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their common ancestry is both the materials used and the creative impetus that caused them to come into being. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All the humans have common ancestry; defining “your own” by some arbitrary subset of common ancestry is irrational and therefore savagery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Exactly what I said - common ancestry is assumed depending on the number of shared characteristics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cladistics is defined as nested hirarchy of traits, this nested hirarchy takes into account the fact, that traits are inheritable and constructs a line of ancestry from the earliest ancestor with the basic set of pleisiomorphic traits inherited to todays taxa via intermediate generations with added synapomorphic traits over time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That everybody (that looks like of Latin ancestry most likely) is presumed GUILTY, not INNOCENT. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Kalash, or "Wearers of the Black Robe," are a Dardic people whose ancestry is enveloped in mystery: a legend says that five soldiers of the legions of Alexander the Great settled in Chitral, and are the progenitors of the Kalash. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

To apologize or compensate people because of their ancestry is ridiculous. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It refutes your position that ancestry is not a characteristic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

ID guy: Exactly what I said - common ancestry is assumed depending on the number of shared characteristics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As I said cladograms are derived from shared characteristics and common ancestry is then ASSUMED. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Common ancestry is ASSUMED depending on the number of SHARED CHARACTERISTICS. seems to be more in line with numerical taxonomy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like so many contemporary people Alice's ancestry is mixed: African, Native American, European, and yet it is Africa that seems to have a permanent call to her heart. ❋ Alice Walker Blog Administrator (2009)

The symbol seems to be a stylised ligature of et, the Latin for and, but in its innumerable old and modern forms this ancestry is only occasionally visible. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You've argued above, following Woese's theory, that at the "Darwinian threshold" molecular homology becomes a reliable indicator of vertical descent (i.e., common ancestry from a discrete cell). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Common ancestry is ASSUMED depending on the number of SHARED CHARACTERISTICS. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Obviously African-American ancestry is different from Irish-American ancestry and we would expect some statistical differences. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Common ancestry is ASSUMED depending on the number of SHARED CHARACTERISTICS. cladistics: ❋ Unknown (2009)

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