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English Dictionary: ancestral by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ancestral
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ancestral
adj
  1. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
    Synonym(s): ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible
  2. of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ancestral \An*ces"tral\ (?; 277), a.
      Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor
      or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. [bd]Ancestral
      trees.[b8] --Hemans.
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