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COMMON ANCESTOR

Specialty Definition: COMMON ANCESTOR

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Law

The method of computing degrees of kindred in all nine provinces is that of the civil law-by counting upward from the intestate to the nearest common ancestor and down to the relative. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: COMMON ANCESTOR

English words defined with "COMMON ANCESTOR": clade, collateralfamily, family line, folkHomoplasmyindirectkinfolk, kinsfolkphratrySept. (references)
Specialty definitions using "COMMON ANCESTOR": Mice, Inbred Strains. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: COMMON ANCESTOR

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Health

The apparent coupling between hantaviruses and their rodent hosts suggests that viruses of sigmodontine rodents share a common ancestor, as do viruses of the subfamily Arvicolinae and Murinae. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COMMON ANCESTOR

Language Translations for "COMMON ANCESTOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

ancêtre commun. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

同祖 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

どうそ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ommoncay ancestoray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COMMON ANCESTOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-m-m-n-n-o-o-o-r-s-t"

-4 letters: comonomers, connectors, contemnors, monstrance.

-5 letters: accentors, anterooms, coatrooms, coenamors, commoners, commonest, comonomer, concertos, connector, contemnor, corantoes, coronates, macrocosm, monocrats, monotones, moonstone, nonactors, ornaments, roommates.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-m-m-n-n-o-o-o-r-s-t"
 

+4 letters: overcommunications.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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