'ancestress
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| —n | |
| 1. | (often plural) a person from whom another is directly descended, esp someone more distant than a grandparent; forefather |
| 2. | an early type of animal or plant from which a later, usually dissimilar, type has evolved |
| 3. | a person or thing regarded as a forerunner of a later person or thing: the ancestor of the modern camera |
| [C13: from Old French ancestre, from Late Latin antecēssor one who goes before, from Latin antecēdere; see | |
| 'ancestress | |
| —fem n | |
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