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单词 ancestral
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Definition of ancestral in English:

ancestral

adjectiveanˈsɛstr(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

  • ancestrally

  • 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).

Rhymes

kestrel, orchestral
 
 

Definition of ancestral in US English:

ancestral

adjectiveænˈsɛstrəlanˈsestrəl
  • 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).

 
 
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