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ancestral /anˈsɛstr(ə)l /adjectiveOf, belonging to, or inherited from an ancestor or ancestors: the family’s ancestral home...- That which is patrimonial is that which is inherited from the ancestral past.
- That area, which belongs to the Maori people there in terms of ancestral use, he would walk all over.
- The Sakya tradition is closely bound up with the Khon ancestral lineage, which derived from celestial beings.
Synonyms inherited, hereditary, familial rare lineal Derivativesancestrally adverb ...- However, the genes may be evolutionarily related, and the two developmental pathways may therefore have ancestrally shared common components.
- Until we rooted the eukaryote tree correctly it was harder to decide whether such features absent in some groups were ancestrally absent or secondarily lost.
- In fact, US Muslims are most often ancestrally from South Asia or Africa not the Middle East, as Americans wrongly assume.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French ancestrel, from ancestre (see ancestor). Rhymeskestrel, orchestral |