ancestors (noun)
81Salafism — noun A Sunni Islamic movement that takes the pious ancestors, the salaf of the patristic period of early Islam, as exemplary models …
82Proto-Greek — noun The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenean and the classical Greek dialects, spoken by the ancestors of the Greeks even before they settled in Greece around 2000 BC. Syn:… …
83bloodline — noun a) The abstract link between a person and their ancestors. b) The pedigree of an animal …
84therapsid — noun Any extinct reptile, of the order Therapsida; thought to be direct ancestors of the mammals …
85Kashkai — 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,… …
86maniraptoran — noun Any of a group of advanced therapods, of the clade Maniraptora, thought to be ancestors of both dinosaurs and birds …
87polydeism — noun /pɒliˈdeɪˈĭzˈəm/ a) Belief in the existence of many gods who collectively set the universe in motion, then ceased to interact with it. Almost all women led religions relate to many spirits, gods, or ancestors even in cultural contexts in… …
88progenitor — noun /pɹəʊˈdʒɛn.ɪ.tə,pɹəˈdʒɛn.ə.tə,pɹoʊˈdʒɛn.ɪ.tɚ,pɹəˈdʒɛn.ə.tɚ/ a) A forefather, any of a persons direct ancestors Abraham alias Ibrahim is the progenitor of both the Jewish and Arab peoples. b) An individual from whom one or more people… …
89Dreaming — noun The time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence. Syn: Dreamtime …
90pleisiomorph — noun A characteristic of an organism that has been acquired from its ancestors. Ant: apomorph …
