 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ancestral
adjective
1: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal
rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore";
"hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate";
"transmissible tradition" [syn: {hereditary}, {patrimonial},
{transmissible}]
2: of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ancestral \An*ces"tral\ (?; 277), adjective
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor
or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. ''Ancestral trees.''
--Hemans.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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