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noun

ancestry

the hereditary derivation of an individual

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ancestry, each labelled with its topic.

  • A cheek swab traced her ancestry to two villages her grandparents had never mentioned by name.

    Science

  • Parish registers let the family follow its ancestry back nine generations, ending at a miller who signed with a cross.

    History

  • Every apple in the orchard shares an ancestry with wild trees still growing in the mountains of Kazakhstan.

    Environment

  • The saga opens with the hero's ancestry recited back nine generations to a king nobody else remembers.

    Literature

  • The point guard's ancestry includes a grandfather who played in the league's very first season.

    Basketball

  • Doctors ask about ancestry because a few inherited conditions cluster in particular populations.

    Medicine

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