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Definition of ancestral in English: ancestraladjectiveanˈsɛstr(ə)lænˈsɛstrəl Of, belonging to, or inherited from an ancestor or ancestors. the family's ancestral home Example sentencesExamples - The significance of the ancestral gods was an innate part of my growing up in Fiji.
- It is believed that family members join the ancestral world after death to protect the living.
- This gives you an idea of just how ancient this particular species was in terms of its ancestral lineage.
- These non-literate people were fighting to protect their ancestral homelands and their way of life.
- Moreover, all other lineages can be traced to one of the ancestral types found in Africa.
- These are the places where ancestral remains are kept and ancestral spirits live.
- An individual may claim the use of and the right to burial in the ancestral lands of either parent.
- That area, which belongs to the Maori people there in terms of ancestral use, he would walk all over.
- I suppose you posh newcomers want to hijack our ancestral lands to grow your own organic fruit and veg.
- The father of two sons and six daughters, Muktiram lives in his ancestral home in Bharatpur.
- Think of the excitement a visit to his ancestral home there would create.
- That which is patrimonial is that which is inherited from the ancestral past.
- In addition, men possess other types of DNA that will tell him about the female ancestral line.
- This may explain the sometimes rapid reversion to ancestral cell sizes.
- In West African culture, ancestral continuity is something to be celebrated rather than avoided.
- Maybe it's the Maori ancestral blood going all kooky at being reunited with its ancient habitat?
- The Sakya tradition is closely bound up with the Khon ancestral lineage, which derived from celestial beings.
- With adversity comes maturity, and today Westwood enjoys a new appreciation for golf's ancestral home.
- The house is the ancestral home of Baron Stourton but after the family moved out in the 1960s it fell into disrepair.
- It thus seems likely that the ancestral arthropod from which insects evolved had appendages on all its segments.
Synonyms inherited, hereditary, familial rare lineal
Derivatives adverb 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. Example sentencesExamples - However, the genes may be evolutionarily related, and the two developmental pathways may therefore have ancestrally shared common components.
- It would mean there was a secret master race that considered themselves pure Australians, with ancestrally no connection to the English, or Italian, or anything.
- In fact, US Muslims are most often ancestrally from South Asia or Africa not the Middle East, as Americans wrongly assume.
- We use our host's blood to make antibodies and immunities, added to those we already carry ancestrally.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French ancestrel, from ancestre (see ancestor). Definition of ancestral in US English: ancestraladjectiveænˈsɛstrəlanˈsestrəl attributive Of, belonging to, inherited from, or denoting an ancestor or ancestors. the family's ancestral home the only records of the ancestral forms are their fossils Example sentencesExamples - The significance of the ancestral gods was an innate part of my growing up in Fiji.
- In addition, men possess other types of DNA that will tell him about the female ancestral line.
- These are the places where ancestral remains are kept and ancestral spirits live.
- This may explain the sometimes rapid reversion to ancestral cell sizes.
- In West African culture, ancestral continuity is something to be celebrated rather than avoided.
- I suppose you posh newcomers want to hijack our ancestral lands to grow your own organic fruit and veg.
- The house is the ancestral home of Baron Stourton but after the family moved out in the 1960s it fell into disrepair.
- This gives you an idea of just how ancient this particular species was in terms of its ancestral lineage.
- Maybe it's the Maori ancestral blood going all kooky at being reunited with its ancient habitat?
- It thus seems likely that the ancestral arthropod from which insects evolved had appendages on all its segments.
- Moreover, all other lineages can be traced to one of the ancestral types found in Africa.
- That area, which belongs to the Maori people there in terms of ancestral use, he would walk all over.
- Think of the excitement a visit to his ancestral home there would create.
- That which is patrimonial is that which is inherited from the ancestral past.
- These non-literate people were fighting to protect their ancestral homelands and their way of life.
- With adversity comes maturity, and today Westwood enjoys a new appreciation for golf's ancestral home.
- The Sakya tradition is closely bound up with the Khon ancestral lineage, which derived from celestial beings.
- The father of two sons and six daughters, Muktiram lives in his ancestral home in Bharatpur.
- It is believed that family members join the ancestral world after death to protect the living.
- An individual may claim the use of and the right to burial in the ancestral lands of either parent.
Synonyms inherited, hereditary, familial
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French ancestrel, from ancestre (see ancestor). |