Ancestries

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of ancestry form-of, plural

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descentlineagelineageparentagenationalityaffiliation

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"My "grandma" neighbour Moli, a Fijian of mixed Chinese and East Indian descent, has grandchildren Darius and Jewel, who are part black because their father was a Caribbean black. So, the grandchildren have all Mongoloid, Caucasoid, Negroid, and Australoid ancestries."

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