Examples of using "D'ancêtre" in a sentence and their english translations:
L'éléphant et la girafe n'eussent-ils pas d'ancêtre commun, comment quelqu'un aurait-il pu remarquer qu'ils avaient exactement le même nombre de vertèbres dans le cou ?
Had the elephant and the giraffe not had common ancestors, how might one possibly have observed that they had an exactly equal number of vertebrae in their necks?