granddam
/ˈɡrændæm/
noun
- The mother of one's parent; a grandmother, especially in formal or old-fashioned use.
- In the old letters, she always referred to her grandmother as 'Granddam'.
- The family portrait shows my granddam as a young woman in the 1920s.
- He inherited his love of reading from his granddam, who was a schoolteacher.
- The mother of a sire or dam of an animal, especially a horse or dog; a female ancestor.
- The puppy's granddam was a prize-winning show dog from Germany.
- The champion racehorse's granddam won several major stakes in the 1990s.
- Breeders track the lineage back to the granddam to predict traits.
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