ancestors (noun)
11studbook — noun official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses • Hypernyms: ↑register, ↑registry * * * ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : an official record of the pedigree of purebred animals (as horses and dogs); also : a book in which such records… …
12family name — noun the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member s given name) • Syn: ↑surname, ↑cognomen, ↑last name • Hypernyms: ↑name • Hyponyms: ↑maiden name * * * noun, pl …
13maiden name — noun a woman s surname before marriage • Hypernyms: ↑surname, ↑family name, ↑cognomen, ↑last name * * * noun, pl ⋯ names [count] : a woman s family name before she is married After she divorced, she took back her maiden name. * * * ˈmaiden name …
14anthropology — noun Etymology: New Latin anthropologia, from anthrop + logia logy Date: 1593 1. the science of human beings; especially the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and …
15cladistics — noun plural but singular in construction Date: 1965 a system of biological taxonomy that defines taxa uniquely by shared characteristics not found in ancestral groups and uses inferred evolutionary relationships to arrange taxa in a branching… …
16Darwinism — noun Date: 1864 1. a theory of the origin and perpetuation of new species of animals and plants that offspring of a given organism vary, that natural selection favors the survival of some of these variations over others, that new species have… …
17death — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ early, premature, untimely ▪ The president s untimely death has thrown the country into chaos. ▪ sudden, unexpected ▪ immediate …
18gap — noun 1 space between things ADJECTIVE ▪ big, huge, large, wide ▪ narrow, small, tiny VERB + GAP ▪ …
19wiring — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ electric, electrical ▪ exposed, faulty ▪ structured (AmE) ▪ a structured wiring network ▪ …
20Aegilops — noun goat grass • Syn: ↑genus Aegilops • Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Gramineae, ↑family Gramineae, ↑G …
