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Noun: ancestress  an-ses-tris
Usage: archaic
  1. A woman ancestor
    "She traced her lineage back to an ancestress who came to America in the 1700s"

Derived forms: ancestresses

Type of: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root

Encyclopedia: Ancestress