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Aino :: Aino (n.) One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies..

Ancestor :: Ancestor (n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse..

Eponymy :: Eponymy (n.) The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc..

Posterity :: Posterity (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham..

Progenitress :: Progenitress (n.) A female progenitor.

Foregoer :: Foregoer (n.) One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor..

Adam :: Adam (n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race..

Genealogy :: Genealogy (n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family..

Ascendant :: Ascendant (n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant..

Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns..

Ancestor :: Ancestor (n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father..

Root :: Root (n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem..

Family :: Family (v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family..

Antecessor :: Antecessor (n.) An ancestor; a progenitor.

Ascend :: Ascend (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor..

Sept :: Sept (n.) A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland..

Stem :: Stem (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Progenitor :: Progenitor (n.) An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.

Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob..

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