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Meanings of ancestral in English

Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent.

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Usage of ancestral in English
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The ancestral group was small and local; the descendants are widely spread.
The Story of Evolution
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Bailey recently took part in a National Geographic study into ancestral DNA.
Radio NZ
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Now, almost two decades later, Sajad could barely recall his ancestral home.
The Guardian
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So far his progress over the game's ancestral manor has been blessed.
The Guardian
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But so are our traditional, cultural, ancestral beliefs as well, she said.
Radio NZ
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He had defeated the League in many battle-fields, but the ancestral palace.
History of the United Netherlands, 1592-94
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Following ancestral TET2 mutations, individual disease course is determined by secondary hits.
Pubmed
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The SA Museum will also look after another seven repatriated ancestral remains.
News.com.au
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There were ancient ancestral memories about such things: the time of chaos.
The evolutionary void
10
Push backwards through time and these ancestral debts begin to add up.
A short history of nearly everything
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Well, the gas simply mentally reverted everyone back to his ancestral animalism.
Midnight at the well of souls
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Some linguists believe Hadza may be close to humankind's first ancestral language.
BBC
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The most common ancestral origin of its inhabitants is Lebanese and Chinese.
News.com.au
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The word Manes signified the friendly ancestral ghosts of a Roman household.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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We have defined 19 microsatellite clusters corresponding to previously described ancestral haplotypes.
Pubmed
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Somehow I knew that Susan was still here in her ancestral home.
Monster Hunter International
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