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ancestral
/ æˈɛٰə /
adjective
of, inherited from, or derived from ancestors
his ancestral home
noun
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
Other 51Թ Forms
- ancestrally adverb
- nonancestral adjective
- nonancestrally adverb
- pseudoancestral adjective
- pseudoancestrally adverb
- ˈٰ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ancestral1
Example Sentences
His wife and two children - Aryan and his elder sister - live in their ancestral village near the border between Gujarat and Rajasthan states.
My childhood homeland demanded a reckoning — my family story braided with ancestral memory, environmental justice and mother-daughter ache.
A bear that overturns your trash can and figures out how to get your leftovers isn't "adapting"; it's just repurposing a behavior that evolved in its natural or ancestral environment.
Members of the tribe say they are celebrating the return of their ancestral lands along Blue Creek, a major tributary that meets the Klamath about 40 miles south of the Oregon border.
They said by the UK keeping the military base of Diego Garcia, the Chagossian people were hindered from being able to "exercise their cultural rights in accessing their ancestral lands from which they were expelled".
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