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ancestral::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
| Derivation | ancestor |
ancestral home.
ancestral lore.
ancestral:: | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | ancestor |
Examples of ancestral
ancestral
It's exactly a century ago in 1910 at Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy's ancestral home.
From the post-gazette.com
Size, it turns out, as well as layout, matters when it comes to ancestral halls.
From the online.wsj.com
Hidden in the background sky, an abstracted cloud resembles an ancestral spirit.
From the dispatch.com
When the chain is broken, we find new locations to claim as our ancestral homes.
From the lens.blogs.nytimes.com
Therefore using this as evidence against ancestral prosauropods is questionable.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The ancestral Colorado River responded by cutting its channel faster and deeper.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The land was purchased in 1946 and was the ancestral home of the Feilden family.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Her ancestral home sat on the Gulf of Mexico and was washed out in its entirety.
From the guardian.co.uk
Fear is a ghost of our past, a relic of our developmental and ancestral history.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
- Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
- Of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
- An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth).
- Pertaining to characters which resemble those of earlier forms (sometimes "primitive" is used incorrectly as a synonym).
- Any relation that holds between two things in virtue of some other relation in which they stand either directly or through intermediaries. ...
- Belonging to a previous generation from whom a person is descended
- Same meaning as primitive, but ancestral is preferred because it does not connote the meaning of good or bad. An ancestral character is one that evolved in an ancestral species and was passed down to descendant taxa.
