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immediate ancestor

collocation in English

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immediate
adjective
uk /ɪˈmiː.di.ət/ us /ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done ...
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ancestor
noun[C]
uk /ˈæn.ses.tər/ us /ˈæn.ses.tɚ/
a person related to you who lived a long ...
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Fissioning standardly gives rise to a pair of new entities that are one half the size of their immediateancestor.
By the end of the 19th century, the immediateancestor of modern fencing had developed with its familiar pedagogy and collection of techniques and theory.
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The other prehistoric equid is the modern horses immediateancestor.
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For example, your immediateancestor in the tree only puts half of his new recruits in your downline, on average.
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This possible identification of the immediateancestor of the living taxon may also rely on stratigraphic information to establish the age of the specimens.
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I think that things still unsolved, not only in my time, but in the time of our immediate ancestors, are perfectly scandalous.
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The secondary school child of to-day is not simply his immediate ancestors brought up to date.
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One cannot tell what sort of progeny a bull will have, merely from seeing his immediate ancestors.
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Opisthobranchs have undergone detorsion, an evolutionary reversal of the half revolution torsion of their immediate ancestors.
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They were most closely related to the extinct chalicotheres, which they greatly resemble, and may have been their immediate ancestors.
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One study suggested that the earliest birds and their immediate ancestors did not climb trees.
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Many horses were named by the region where they or their immediate ancestors were foaled.
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A sept or clan was a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory.
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Such notches are found in labyrinthodonts and some of their immediate ancestors, but not in their reptilian descendants.
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Vertebrate paleontology concentrates on fossils of vertebrates, from the earliest fish to the immediate ancestors of modern mammals.
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Some recent research undermines the trees down hypothesis by suggesting that the earliest birds and their immediate ancestors did not climb trees.
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Then they visit the tombs of their immediate ancestors to trim plants and clean the area around the tomb, and offer food, drink, and crops to their ancestors.
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