A female forebear or ancestor; a predecessoress.

A family tree or pedigree in which the ancestors, rather than the descendants of a particular person are shown

plural of ancestral chart

(poetry, Greek and Latin meter) A syllable that can be either short or long.

(medicine) A deformed fetus for which development of the heart, head and extremities are all rudimentary, connected as a parasite to another fetus.

Obsolete spelling of ancestor

plural of ancestour

Obsolete form of ancestry.

Obsolete form of ancestral.

(prosody) A syllable of unfixed or undecided weight.