ancestors (noun)
41nonwhite — noun Date: 1927 a person whose features and especially whose skin color are distinctively different from those of peoples of northwestern Europe; especially one who has black African ancestors • nonwhite adjective …
42parentage — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from parent Date: 15th century 1. a. descent from parents or ancestors ; lineage < a person of noble parentage > b. derivation, origin < a tradition of uncertain parentage > …
43patrimony — noun Etymology: Middle English patrimoine, patrimonie, from Anglo French patremoine, from Latin patrimonium, from patr , pater father Date: 14th century 1. a. an estate inherited from one s father or ancestor b. anything derived from one s father …
44pedigree — noun Etymology: Middle English pedegru, from Anglo French pé de grue, literally, crane s foot; from the shape made by the lines of a genealogical chart Date: 15th century 1. a register recording a line of ancestors 2. a. an ancestral line ;… …
45Tamil — noun Etymology: Tamil Tamiẓ; akin to Pali Damiḷa, a Dravidian speaking people, Sanskrit Dravida Date: 1734 1. a Dravidian language of Tamil Nadu state, India, and of northern and eastern Sri Lanka 2. a Tamil speaking person or a descendant of… …
46therapsid — noun Etymology: New Latin Therapsida, from ther mammal (from Greek thēr wild animal) + apsid , apsis arch, vault more at fierce, apsis Date: 1912 any of an order (Therapsida) of Permian and Triassic syrapsid reptiles considered ancestors of the… …
47ancestral chart — noun A family tree or pedigree in which the ancestors, rather than the descendants of a particular person are shown …
48raoellid — noun Any of a group of extinct hoofed mammals, of the family Raoellidae, from Eocene India, thought to be ancestors of the whales …
49Qishlaq — noun a tribal confederation of clans of Turkic origin in Iran According to the Encyclopædia Iranica: Like most present day tribal confederacies in Persia, the Il e Qašqāʾi is a conglomeration of clans of different ethnic origins, Lori, Kurdish,… …
50Shintō — noun Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits …
