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common ancestors

common ancestors is the plural of common ancestor.

Meaning of common ancestor

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.

Questions about common ancestors

What is common ancestors the plural of?
Common ancestors is the plural of common ancestor.

Words near common ancestors in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: common ancestors (page history and authors); common ancestor (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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