Synonym: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible. Similar words: ancestor, remonstrance, incest, balance sheet, australia, australian, circumstances, clearance sale. Meaning: [æn'sestrəl] adj. 1. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent 2. of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor.
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1. I admire the way he has virtually renounced ancestral claims to deification.
2. The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.
3. He made no attempt to touch Owen's ancestral hold of Carrog, because he had no orders to do so.
4. Often they offer libations to the ancestral gods and cleanse themselves.
5. Shop houses and ancestral halls were jumbled side by side with whitewashed cottages and churches.
6. The rugby team is from a rural ancestral world where traditions run unbroken.
7. For the Berry family, this ancestral slave was exemplary, a model for them to emulate.
8. Natural selection favoured those ancestral caddis genes that caused their possessors to build effective houses.
9. The origin of the ancestral wild boar is thought to be the Crimea.
10. The two clusters evolved by duplication of an ancestral gene cluster before the divergence of the human and great ape lineages.
11. As for the violence in the ancestral cities, it was women who were its most quiet victims and most silent scapegoats.
12. The ancestral language can itself be reconstructed from the hints held in its much diverged descendants.
13. Perhaps the characters are arbitrary and the ancestral female's choice was frivolous.
14. Cities, unlike the birds' ancestral cliffs, provide enough food to breed in cold weather.
15. Painter Betina Fink's new series, Ancestral Park, focuses on a contemporary burial ground near her home.
16. It is hard to argue that the average rat has been endowed with conspicuous display ornaments by the preferences of ancestral females.
17. Moreover,[Sentence dictionary] the most difficult tricks to teach a sheepdog are those most removed from its ancestral hunting skills.
18. There is a rare Brittany breed which is very similar to the Guernsey and possibly formed the ancestral stock.
19. It seems certain that all eight have been copied, ultimately from a single ancestral globin gene.
20. Cornelius turned his key in the lock and quietly entered the ancestral home.
21. If we leap far enough, all the genes will be copies of one single gene in our ancestral population.
22. On one hand, it provided me with a connection to my ancestral land that had been missing during those formative years.
23. He was a Confucian and believed in the worship of spirits and the sanctity of the ancestral land.
24. Frontal sinus present: present in Proconsul, Afropithecus and Dryopithecus, and so it is almost certainly an ancestral hominoid character.
25. With an increasing non-Agta farming population, the Agta now view themselves as landless squatters in their own ancestral lands.
26. And like Persephone, we will return, to ourselves, and to our ancestral beginnings.
27. A wild midnight gallop lands her on the very doorstep of her ancestral home, and the fun and games commence.
28. Because they were descended from them, many sometimes descending from a single ancestral species.
29. But, like the lemmings, how does such a geographical knowledge become an inherited ancestral heritage?
30. But what about the caddis house? Natural selection favoured those ancestral caddis genes that caused their possessors to build effective houses.
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