释义 |
ancestrally, adv.|ænˈsɛstrəlɪ| [f. ancestral a. + -ly2.] By or in respect of ancestry.
1882G. Allen Colin Clout's Calendar xvii. 97 Ancestrally, yellow-rattle is a near relation of the pretty little blue veronicas. 1886Athenæum 6 Mar. 328/3 Whether the vertebrate eye..will turn out..to be ancestrally derived from a number of modified ancestral gills. 1923R. Frost New Hamp. (1924) 50 With something of the baby grip Acquired ancestrally in just such trees. |