Ancestry and Source

Ancestry

Ancestry noun - The line of ancestors from whom a person is descended.

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Source and ancestry are semantically related in origin topic. In some cases you can use "Source" instead a noun "Ancestry", when it comes to topics like family history.

Nearby Words: ancestor, ancestral, ancestress

Source

Source noun - A point or place at which something is invented or provided.

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Ancestry and source are semantically related in origin topic. Sometimes you can use "Ancestry" instead a noun "Source".

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common	common ancestry	common source
true	true ancestry	true source
divine	divine ancestry	divine source
strong	strong ancestry	strong source
Other adjectives: actual, possible, different, genetic.

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Our Dragons Are Different: In addition to being the source of Firebending, most of the Fire Nation has draconic ancestry, in some cases very recently and on all sides.

Source: Fan Fic / Embers
In one source book dealing with different blood ancestry gifts (stuff like having dragon descendants, etc.), Illithid blood powers are in the people who are the Illthids' ancestors.

Source: Abusive Precursors
In Ben 10: Alien Force, the main source of superpowers is revealed to be having alien ancestry, which includes, among other things, energy beings (although granted said energy being could assume human form) and an alien made out of living fire (which is a bit harder to explain).

Source: Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor

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