Synonyms 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"

   Synonyms:
   familial, genetic, contagious, transmittable, hereditary, catching, patrimonial, inherited, communicable, transmissible, contractable, transmitted

   Antonyms:
   nonheritable, noninheritable

2. ancestraladjective

   of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

   Synonyms:
   hereditary, transmissible, patrimonial

   Antonyms:
   noninheritable, nonheritable

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1. ancestraladjective

   Synonyms:
   hereditary, patrimonial

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1. ancestraladjective

   Synonyms:
   patrimonial, hereditary

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1. List of paraphrases for "ancestral":

   aboriginal, age-old, ancestor, ancient, traditional, progenitor, salafi, ancestry, salafist

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1. Anthony Burgess:

   We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

2. Giulio Rimondi:

   The ways of society were more ancestral than what I expected, but in a cultural way.

3. Diane Yaqco:

   We plea and beg the international community to intervene immediately, we have been driven out of our ancestral lands. We have been killed and crucified. The international community must act now to save lives of others kidnapped.

4. 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.

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 ?