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- noun A
parent of agrandparent .
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Examples
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Overall, 17 percent of the medicines ingested belonged to a grandparent or great-grandparent.
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There are tables and oddments of the depressing sort we can all remember shudderingly from the house of a grandparent or great-grandparent, which remind us why later generations decried the Victorian aesthetic.
A Self-Conscious Pursuit of Beauty in Art Paul Levy 2011
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Ms. SANDWEISS: One-eighth, one great-grandparent of African descent.
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Ms. SANDWEISS: One-eighth, one great-grandparent of African descent.
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“This level is what you would expect in someone who had a great-grandparent who was African,” said Kari Stefansson of deCODE Genetics, who conducted the mapping.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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The smallest group, the oldest generation that included grandparents, great-aunts, and great-uncles, and occasionally a great-grandparent, took up only a few chairs.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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Ms. SANDWEISS: One-eighth, one great-grandparent of African descent.
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“This level is what you would expect in someone who had a great-grandparent who was African,” said Kari Stefansson of deCODE Genetics, who conducted the mapping.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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As extensively detailed above, nor can you marry a deceased or even non-deceased uncle, aunt, or great-grandparent of the the same or opposite sex.
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Basically, the wrist evidence tells us that modern humans and Neanderthals share an evolutionary grandparent that the hobbits do not, but all three share an evolutionary great-grandparent.
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