Ancestral

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or evolved from an ancestor or ancestors.
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  • adj. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to ancestors or progenitors; descending or claimed from ancestors: as, an ancestral estate; ancestral trees; a king on his ancestral throne.
  • In biology, of or pertaining to an ancestor; being an earlier, and presumably lower or more generalized, type from which later more specialized forms of organized beings are asserted to have been evolved.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
  • adj. of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
    • Equivalent
    heritable    inheritable   
    Cross Reference
    homage ancestral   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    forefatherly    patrimonial    hereditary   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    orchestral   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    earthly    hereditary    very    Celtic    paternal    royal    pagan    historic    Babylonian    tribal   
     
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