Definitions for Ancestral
ænˈsɛs trəlan·ces·tral

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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

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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

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1. Ancestral

   primitive; inherited from an earlier form or ancestor.

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Anagrams for Ancestral »

1. Lancaster

How to pronounce Ancestral?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   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. Blake Flayton:

   If a Jew who is a liberal, who is left wing says,' I'm a Blake Flayton,' they're not given the space to explain all of what that means. That word means is that you support the Jewish right to self-determination in part of Julia Jassey ancestral homeland, not even specifying where the borders are, not even specifying which government they would like to see in charge in Israel, they're not given the space to explain that. They're banished.

3. Horace:

   He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

4. Stephen Jay Gould:

   “If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range ...

5. Julia Monk:

   Usually, when evolutionary biologists see a trait thats really widespread across evolutionary lineages, we at least consider the idea that the trait is ancestral and was preserved in all those lineages, so why hadnt people considered that hypothesis for SSB ?

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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
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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
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Ancestral