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Ancestral

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Adjective

1. ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible

inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

Example Sentences:
'ancestral home'
'ancestral lore'
'hereditary monarchy'
'patrimonial estate'
'transmissible tradition'

2. ancestral

of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ancestral

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adjective
1. 
of, inherited from, or derived from ancestors
his ancestral home
noun
2. logic
a relation that holds between x and y if there is a chain of instances of a given relation leading from x to y. Thus the ancestral of parent of is ancestor of, since x is the ancestor of y if and only if x is a parent of…a parent of…a parent of y

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Ancestral

see synonyms of ancestral
adjective
of or inherited from an ancestor or ancestors

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ancestral

see synonyms of ancestral
adj.
Of, relating to, or evolved from an ancestor or ancestors.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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