ancestors (noun)
31ancestor worship — noun Date: 1854 the custom of venerating deceased ancestors who are considered still a part of the family and whose spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living …
32ancestry — noun Date: 14th century 1. line of descent ; lineage; especially honorable, noble, or aristocratic descent 2. persons initiating or comprising a line of descent ; ancestors …
33bloodline — noun Date: 1896 a sequence of direct ancestors especially in a pedigree; also family, strain …
34cultigen — noun Etymology: cultivated + gen Date: 1924 a cultivated or domestic organism (as the kidney bean Phaseolus vulgaris, the dog Canis familiaris, or corn Zea mays) which has diverged enough while in domestication or cultivation from its ancestors… …
35dryopithecine — noun Etymology: ultimately from Greek drys tree + pithēkos ape Date: 1939 any of a subfamily (Dryopithecinae) of Miocene and Pliocene Old World anthropoid apes sometimes regarded as ancestors of both humans and modern anthropoids • dryopithecine… …
36fatherland — noun Date: 12th century 1. the native land or country of one s father or ancestors 2. one s native land or country …
37heredity — noun Etymology: Middle French heredité, from Latin hereditat , hereditas, from hered , heres heir more at heir Date: circa 1540 1. a. inheritance b. tradition 2. a. the sum of the characteristics and potentialities genetically derived from one s… …
38hominization — noun Etymology: Latin homin , homo + English ization Date: 1952 the evolutionary development of human characteristics that differentiate hominids from their primate ancestors …
39missing link — noun Date: 1851 1. an absent member needed to complete a series or resolve a problem 2. a. a hypothetical intermediate evolutionary form between humans and their presumed simian progenitors b. a hypothetical intermediate evolutionary form between …
40mother country — noun Date: 1587 1. the country from which the people of a colony or former colony derive their origin 2. the country of one s parents or ancestors; also fatherland 3. a country that is the origin of something …
