ancestral
IPA: ænsˈɛstrʌɫ
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors
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Examples of "ancestral" in Sentences
- A slower legacy for Bruce Lee in Chinese ancestral town
- They are now fighting to return to what they call their ancestral land.
- His earlier studies led him to formulate what he called the ancestral law.
- The arc of Earth's limb appeared — immediately recognizable, as if coded in ancestral memory.
- The wide phylogenetic distribution suggests that signaling most likely evolved in ancestral eukaryotes.
- Parents across the sea, rolling in ancestral gold and Bank of England notes, acquired a reality they had never enjoyed before.
- The first of these resulted in ancestral Asu speakers settling into the South Pare Mountains and in proto-Sabaki speech communities spreading north of the Pangani River, along the narrow stretches of the Kenyan coast.
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