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common ancestor

common ancestor noun: an ancestor that two or more descendants have in common.

Noun

common ancestor (plural common ancestors)

  1. An ancestor that two or more descendants have in common.
    • The monarchs of Spain and the UK have a common ancestor namely Queen Victoria.
    • The chimpanzee and the gorilla have a common ancestor.

common ancestor meaning in Tamil

common ancestor in Tamil

பொது மூதாதையர்

Forms of common ancestor

pluralcommon ancestors

Words formed from common ancestor

Questions about common ancestor

What does common ancestor mean?
Common ancestor means an ancestor that two or more descendants have in common.
What is common ancestor in Tamil?
Common ancestor in Tamil is பொது மூதாதையர். See Common ancestor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is common ancestor?
Common ancestor is a noun.
What is the plural of common ancestor?
The plural of common ancestor is common ancestors.

Words near common ancestor in the dictionary

  1. commolition
  2. common
  3. common alder
  4. common alders
  5. common amaranth
  6. common ancestor
  7. common ancestors
  8. common antilog
  9. common antilogarithm
  10. common antilogarithms
  11. common antilogs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: common ancestor (page history and authors); common ancestor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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