ancestor

There is also a mysterious Moomin ancestor who lives permanently in the stove.

Natives from all over the New World could host a great celebration to honor their oldest ancestor.

It is possible to name an ancestor to this obsessive-compulsive noir: David Lynch.

Soon after he was seen stumping for the Assad regime in his ancestor's conflagrated homeland.

Schiele is, if nothing else, an ancestor of the best in long-legged fashion illustration.

He married the widow of —— Bradley, and was the ancestor of the baronets of Caversham, extinct in 1774.

There could not, indeed, be stronger evidence that man has descended from a quadruped ancestor.

In an occasional horse the long-lost stripes of the zebra-like ancestor reappear.

As regards the pointed ear of man's probable ancestor, Darwin calls attention to what seems a trace in man of the lost tip.

This is by no means to suggest that some one of the existing anthropoid apes is the direct ancestor of man.