Definitions for ancestral
ænˈsɛs trəlan·ces·tral

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissibleadjective

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

   "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

2. ancestraladjective

   of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ancestraladjective

   Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

2. Etymology: ancestral, from ancestre.

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1. ancestral

   An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). Ancestor is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited."Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy.Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2n ancestors in the nth generation before her/him and a total of 2g+1 − 2 ancestors in the g generations before him/her. In practice, however, it is clear that most ancestors of humans (and any other species) are multiply related (see pedigree collapse). Consider n = 40: the human species is more than 40 generations old, yet the number 240, approximately 1012 or one trillion, dwarfs the number of humans who have ever lived. Some cultures confer reverence to ancestors, both living and dead; in contrast, some more youth-oriented cultural contexts display less veneration of elders. In other cultural contexts, some people seek providence from their deceased ancestors; this practice is sometimes known as ancestor worship or, more accurately, ancestor veneration.

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1. ancestral

   Ancestral refers to anything related to, originating from, or belonging to an ancestor or ancestors. It can also encompass characteristics, attributes, or possessions inherited from previous generations. This term can be closely linked to history, heritage, lineage, and family. It can be applied to a broad range of contexts such as people, property, traits, cultures, traditions, and beliefs.

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1. Ancestraladjective

   of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ancestral

   primitive; inherited from an earlier form or ancestor.

Anagrams for ancestral »

1. Lancaster

How to pronounce ancestral?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say ancestral in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ancestral in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ancestral in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of ancestral in a Sentence

1. Daniel Field:

   Today, birds are the most diverse and globally widespread group of terrestrial vertebrate animals -- there are nearly 11,000 living species, only a handful of ancestral bird lineages succeeded in surviving the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, and all of today's amazing living bird diversity can be traced to these ancient survivors.

2. Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943):

   Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming and ancestral stream.

3. Steve Brusatte:

   The ancestors of T. rex would have looked a whole lot like Timurlengia, a horse-sized hunter with a big brain and keen hearing that would put us to shame, only after these ancestral tyrannosaurs evolved their clever brains and sharp senses did they grow into the colossal sizes of T. rex. Tyrannosaurs had to get smart before they got big.

4. Auma Obama:

   Given that his own mission under Obama Foundation is to inspire and empower people to change the world, his attendance at this event at our ancestral home, where our father was laid to rest, is of great significance to me.

5. Roberto Mukaro Borrero:

   I have a real problem when those people preferring to affirm an African or even a Spanish side to their history say that I can't affirm who I am as an indigenous person, as though everybody else is entitled to be who they are on our ancestral homeland, except us.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ancestral
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ancestral
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ancestral
6. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=ancestral