ancestral

ancestor | American Dictionary

ancestor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈænˌses·tər, -səs-/
any member of your family from long ago, for example, the grandparents of your grandparents:
He returned to Ecuador, where his mother’s ancestors lived.

ancestral

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ænˈses·trəl/
He wanted to tour his family's ancestral homeland, Germany.

ancestry

noun[ Cusually sing ]us/ˈænˌses·tri, -səs-/
She was of Spanish and Iroquois ancestry.

Examples of ancestor

ancestor
Their possession of the bundles would have identified them as lineage heads, those most directly descended from the divine ancestors.
The seed from which the tree is grown consists of its rightmost left and leftmost right ancestors, initially the two pseudo-nodes.
Under protobiological conditions, peptides could have spontaneously formed and organized into simple, functional structures that were ancestors of modern protein channels and receptors.
What's more, this pressure would have been independent of our ancestors' cognitive abilities or social structures at the time.
Initiates pored over the book's photographs of famous ancestors, getting me to translate passages, which were then discussed and criticised.
The dual for downwards accumulations of the function subtrees is the function paths, which replaces each element of a tree with that element's ancestors.
We must belong to a particular reproductive community, sharing certain ancestors.
All this increases people's freedom to shape their identities in a way that their ancestors could not have possibly imagined.
A division of the world is also found in relation to lineages and ancestors associated with a par ticular place.
Feasts maintain relationships between the living and ancestors.
Eventually, soon after the beginning of the civil war, he judged the time ripe for reclaiming all the former power and wealth of his ancestors.
Both of these place names associate the caves with ancestors, and the latter specifically with divine ancestors.
They are unlikely to have formed a kin group with a commonly recognized set of ancestors.
Both must turn their backs on the inhuman voices which were those of their respective ancestors in order that authentic communication be possible.
Grant that our distant ancestors wanted to make tools when they knapped away.
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Collocations withancestor

ancestor

These are words often used in combination with ancestor.

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ancestor worship
I am not bowled over by ancestor worship.
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