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"ancestral home" "ancestral lore"adjectiveinherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
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of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
Definition that contains ancestral
- primitive little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- archaic little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- gallina small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl
- synapsida extinct reptiles of the Permian to Jurassic considered ancestral to mammals
- mesohippus North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses
- capsicum frutescens baccatum plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers
- cognate a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
- pantotheria generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals
- subclass crossopterygii fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians
- gallus gallus a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl