Definition of ancestral
:of, relating to, or inherited from an ancestor
- ancestral estates
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Not even the modern-yet-ancestral brand of sushi that Katsu Mishite was crafting on Hillhurst could compare.
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Knowing this could help researchers understand where ancestral humans lived and foraged, as well as which nutrients were available to them.
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White nationalists see, feel, and describe their bond to America as cultural, ancestral, and implicitly racial.
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More than 1,000 workers lost jobs, many in Anheuser’s ancestral home of St. Louis.
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Dilbeck was famous for creating a faux-ancestral look to his homes by including design elements that suggest additions from a later age.
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Fans have speculated that Daenerys will accomplish this attack with help from Tyrion, who knows his way around the sewers at his ancestral home.
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The novel’s second paragraph makes reference to a stillborn son between the daughters Anne and Mary, a brother and heir whose existence would have spared the Elliot family removal from their ancestral home.
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One line of argument suggested that ancestral baleen whales were suction feeders and that this led to the loss of teeth and the subsequent evolution of baleen.
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First Known Use of ancestral
15th century
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