About The Word Ancestral
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Ancestral
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What's The Definition Of Ancestral?
[adj] inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ancestral: hereditary | heritable | inheritable | patrimonial | transmissible Related Terms | Find terms related to Ancestral: aboriginal | ancestorial | antepatriarchal | atavistic | autochthonous | fatherlike | fatherly | grandfatherly | grandmotherly | grandparental | humanoid | maternal | mother | motherlike | motherly | parent | parental | paternal | patriarchal | preadamite | preglacial | prehistoric | prehuman | prime | primeval | primitive | primogenial | primoprimitive | primordial | pristine | protohistoric | protohuman See Also | Ancestral In Webster's Dictionary \An*ces"tral\ (?; 277), a.
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor
or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. ``Ancestral trees.''
--Hemans.
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